Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) - Softcover

Coxon, Anthony (Tony) P. (Peter) M. (MacMillan)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803972377 ISBN 13: 9780803972377

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

If you need hints on how to collect, describe, compare and analyze data, you will find them in this handy guide. The author addresses specification elaboration, and sampling of the "domain" or what is to be sorted. There is also help on setting the criterion, the pre-test, administration, and recording of results. The author gives special consideration to problems of categorization illustrated with a real research example.

About this title

About the Author

Tony Coxon was an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh′s School of Social and Political Studies. He was also Emeritus Professor, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. He taught MDS and advanced quantitative methods for more than 30 years and wrote numerous articles on the various techniques and models associated with MDS. Most notably, Dr. Coxon published three methodology texts: The User′s Guide to Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); Key Texts in Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); and Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis (1999, Sage QASS series). He wrote 41 entries in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, and most recently wrote the entry on multidimensional scaling for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0803972377
• ISBN 13: 9780803972377
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104