Advanced Quantative Data Analysis / Edition 1

by Duncan Cramer, Alan Bryman

Overview

There are a variety of statistical techniques used to analyze quantitative data that masters students, advanced undergraduates and researchers in the social sciences are expected to be able to understand and undertake. This book explains these techniques, when it is appropriate to use them, how to carry them out and how to write up the results. Most books which describe these techniques do so at too advanced or technical a level to be readily understood by many students who need to use them. In contrast the following features characterize this book
• concise and accessible introduction to calculating and interpreting advanced statistical techniques
• use of a small data set of simple numbers specifically designed to illustrate the nature and manual calculation of the most important statistics in each technique
• succinct illustration of writing up the results of these analyses
• minimum of mathematical, statistical and technical notation
• annotated bibliography and glossary of key concepts Commonly used software is introduced, and instructions are presented for carrying out analyses and interpreting the output using the computer programs of SPSS Release 11 for Windows and a version of LISREL 8.51, which is freely available online. Designed as a textbook for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate courses across the socio-behavioral sciences, this book will also serve as a personal reference for researchers in disciplines such as sociology and psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335200597
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Understanding Social Research Ser.
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Duncan Cramer has been a Reader in Psychological Health in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University since 1996. He has authored or co-authored various texts on statistics including An Introduction to Statistics in Psychology (2000) and Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS Release 10 for Windows (2001).

Table of Contents

Series editor’s foreword
Preface
1 Introduction

PART 1
Grouping quantitative variables together
2 Exploratory factor analysis
3 Confirmatory factor analysis
4 Cluster analysis

PART 2
Explaining the variance of a quantitative variable
5 Stepwise multiple regression
6 Hierarchical multiple regression

PART 3
Sequencing the relationships between three or more quantitativevariables
7 Path analysis assuming no measurement error
8 Path analysis accounting for measurement error

PART 4
Explaining the probability of a dichotomous variable
9 Binary logistic regression

PART 5
Testing differences between group means
10 An introduction to analysis of variance and covariance
11 Unrelated one-way analysis of covariance
12 Unrelated two-way analysis of variance

PART 6
Discriminating between groups
13 Discriminant analysis

PART 7
Analysing frequency tables with three or more qualitative variables
14 Log-linear analysis
Glossary
References
Index