INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS CHAPTER 4 ppt

... sampling is going to be. BALNAVES AND CAPUTI TABLE 4. 9 Random selection of households for interview No. of people in household 12 345 Person to interview 1 2 2 4 3 1125 3 14 31 2 TABLE 4. 10 Summary ... interest: democratization of methods of research ± making research methods transparent; and hybridity ± making sure that qualitative research informed quantitative rese...

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... between deduction, induction and abduc- tion is important to social science research and to quantitative methods. It allows researchers to understand the nature of the evidence that they are dealing ... these trifles in more detail. TOOLS OF MEASUREMENT `AM CROSSING TO GET MEXICAN DIVORCE STOP WILL MARRY CHRIS STOP GOOD LUCK AND GOODBYE CRYSTAL' (Chandler, 1 944 : 18) This i...

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... DATA! 0 20 40 60 80 100 Carrier A Carrier B percentage FIGURE 5.6 Preference for telecommunications carrier 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Carrier A Carrier B percentage FIGURE 5.7 A different way to ... Example of back -to- back plot Males Females 32 40 45 41 48 60 50 65 55 66 53 55 52 57 45 58 32 67 60 62 Males Females 22 3 855 4 01 5320 5 578 0 6 02567 113 to divide the...

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... 4. 3 Research methods and techniques of data collection 67 Figure 4. 4 Basic experimental design 69 Figure 4. 5 Different answering formats 84 Figure 4. 6 Contingency questions 84 Figure 4. 7 Factors ... know?' 33 Tools of Methodology 34 Styles of Reasoning (deduction, induction and abduction) 36 Causality 40 Mapping Relationships 41 Tools of Measurement 44 What are Va...

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... groups Consider the following observations for two samples. Sample1: 44 32 38 51 54 56 67 69 62 73 Sample2:61013 142 942 2 646 50557077 We wish to test the hypothesis that the samples come from different populations. We ... interval. df t df t df t 1 12.71 11 2.20 25 2.06 2 4. 30 12 2.18 30 2. 04 3 3.18 13 2.16 40 2.02 4 2.78 14 2.15 50 2.00 52.58 15 2.13 602.00 6 2 .45 16 2.12 80 1...

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... 48 cultural 55±6 dependent and independent 42 , 46 diagramming 42 ±3 discrete 47 , 48 explanatory 156, 160 extraneous 68 not normally distributed 2 24 operationalization 46 , 48 as questionnaire questions 77 response ... median 1 34 5 sampling distribution 179 measurement 44 ±51 media effects 2 4, 22 4, 100, 101 theory 96 see also journalists median calculating 47 , 133 4 defi...

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... of investors: common stock and preferred stock. As a very general rule, the benefits of common stock tend to be more geared for individual investors while those of preferred stock tend to be more ... of Stocks are split into two issues—common stock that appeals more to individual investors; and the various classes of preferred stock that are geared more to the needs of institutional i...

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... from Washington (WA) (more, smaller eggs). (After Sinervo, 1990.) EIPC 04 10/ 24/ 05 1 :49 PM Page 116 •• 90 CHAPTER 4 •• (a) (b) (c) EIPC 04 10/ 24/ 05 1 :49 PM Page 90 LIFE, DEATH AND LIFE HISTORIES 107 N T = ... of habitats EIPC 04 10/ 24/ 05 1 :49 PM Page 121 LIFE, DEATH AND LIFE HISTORIES 131 habitat in seeking to understand life histories. Phylogeny sets limits to an organis...

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