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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 The Scientific Study of Research Questions; What Does It Mean to Be Scientific?; Distinguishing Empirical and Normative Questions; Reformulating Normative Questions as Empirical; Research Questions; The Scientific Research Process; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 2 Building Blocks of the Research Process; Theories, Hypotheses, and Operational Definitions: An Overview; Types of Hypotheses; Theoretical Role; Units of Analysis; Operational Definitions; Exercises |
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Suggested Answers to Exercises3 Research Design; The Concept of Causality; Types of Research Design; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 4 Published Data Sources; The Internet as Data Source; The Importance of Units of Analysis; Strategies for Finding Data Sources; Some General Data Sources; Demographic Data; Political and Governmental Data for Nations; Data on U.S. Government and Politics; Survey Data; Content Analysis; Steps in Content Analysis; Issues in Content Analysis; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 5 Survey Research; Sampling; Interviewing; Writing Survey Items |
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ExercisesSuggested Answers to Exercises; 6 Statistics: An Introduction; Levels of Measurement; Univariate Statistics; The Concept of Relationship; Multivariate Statistics; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 7 Graphic Display of Data; Graphics for Univariate Distributions; Graphics for Multivariate Relationships; How Not to Lie with Graphics; The Need for Standardization; Principles for Good Graphics; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercise A; 8 Nominal and Ordinal Statistics; Correlations for Nominal Variables; Correlations for Ordinal Variables; Chi-Square: A Significance Test |
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Additional Correlations for Nominal VariablesInterpreting Contingency Tables Using Statistics; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 9 Interval Statistics; The Regression Line; Pearson's r; Nonlinear Relationships; Relationships Between Interval and Nominal Variables; Exercises; Suggested Answers to Exercises; 10 Multivariate Statistics; Controlling with Contingency Tables; What Can Happen When You Control; Controlling with Interval Variables: Partial Correlations; The Multiple Correlation; Significance Test for R2; Beta Weights; Causal Interpretation; Exercises |
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Suggested Answers to ExercisesReferences; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World politics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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World politics
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Political science -- Methodology
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Political science -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429969294 |
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0429969295 |
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