Handbook of data analysis /

Handbook of data analysis / Data analysis edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman. - London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2004. - xvii, 704 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : common threads among techniques of data analysis / Constructing variables / Summarizing distributions / Inference / Strategies for analysis of incomplete data / Feminist issues in data analysis / Historical analysis / Multiple regression analysis / Incorporating categorical information into regression models : the utility of dummy variables / Analyzing contingent effects in regression models / Regression models for categorical outcomes / Log-linear analysis / Modeling Change / Analyzing panel data : fixed- and random-effects models / Longitudinal analysis for continuous outcomes : random effects models and latent trajectory models / Event history analysis / Sequence analysis and optimal matching techniques for social science data / Sample selection bias models / Structural equation modeling / Multilevel modelling / Causal inference in sociological studies / The analysis of social networks / Tools of qualitative data analysis / Content analysis / Semiotics and data analysis / Conversation analysis / Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman -- Alan Bryman and Duncan Cramer -- Melissa Hardy -- Lawrence Hazelrigg -- Mortaza Jamshidian -- Mary Maynard -- Dennis Smith -- Ross M. Stolzenberg -- Melissa Hardy and John Reynolds -- James Jaccard and Tonya Dodge -- J. Scott Long and Simon Cheng -- Douglas L. Anderton and Eric Cheney -- Nancy Brandon Tuma -- Trond Petersen -- Guang Guo and John Hipp -- Paul Allison -- Heather MacIndoe and Andrew Abbott -- Vincent Kang Fu, Christopher Winship and Robert D. Mare -- Jodie B. Ullman and Peter M. Bentler -- William Browne and Jon Rasbash -- Christopher Winship and Michael Sobel -- Ronald L. Breiger -- Raymond M. Lee and Nigel G. Fielding -- Roberto P. Franzosi -- Peter K. Manning -- Steven E. Clayman and Virginia Teas Gill -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Discourse analysis / Grounded theory / The uses of narrative in social science research / Qualitative research and the postmodern turn / Areas of the standard normal distribution. Jonathan Potter -- Nick Pidgeon and Karen Henwood -- Barbara Czarniawska -- Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson -- 27. 28. 29. 30. App.

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