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New Tools for Social Scientsts: Advances and Applications in Research Methods
New Tools for Social Scientsts Advances and Applications in Research Methods Author:Dr. William D. Berry, Michael S. Lewis-Beck This volume reviews the most important recent advances in quantitative social science methodology. Broad coverage is given to techniques applicable to the study of a wide variety of topics. To better explain these techniques, each chapter includes an extensive treatment of just one or two substantive applications. Limited to a small number of ap... more »plications, the authors are able to discuss the methodological choices involved in research to a degree rarely found in social science literature.New Tools for Social Scientists is divided into three sections -- the problems of measurement, the non-interval level data that permeate the social sciences, and the problems of making reasonable inferences about the determinants of a dynamic process.« less