Interpreting quantitative data /
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| Author / Creator: | Byrne, David, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002. |
| Description: | x, 176 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4714099 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Interpreting the Real and Describing the Complex
- Why We Have to Measure
- The Nature of Measurement
- What We Measure and How We Measure
- The State's Measurement
- The Construction and Use of Official Statistics
- Measuring the Complex World
- The Character of Social Surveys
- Probability and Quantitative Reasoning
- Interpreting Measurements
- Exploring, Describing and Classifying
- Linear Modelling
- Clues as to Causes
- Coping with Non-Linearity and Emergence
- Simulation and Neural Nets
- Qualitative Modelling
- Issues of Meaning and Cause
- Conclusion
