Microcomputer Methods for Social Scientists (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

A., Philip (Editor) Schrodt

ISBN 10: 0803930437 / ISBN 13: 9780803930438

Published by SAGE Publications, New York

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Microcomputer Methods for Social Scientists (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, New York
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803930437
• ISBN 13: 9780803930438
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 8.5W x 5.5H x 0.2D inches 8.5 inches width by 5.5 inches height by 0.2 inches depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nonfiction: Social Sciences: Research

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Synopsis

New material is added on the development of statistical packages for computers. Pascal and C as programming languages, desktop publishing, graphics editing, and RAM-resident utilities.

About the Author

Ph.D. Indiana University 1976. Before coming to Penn State, Professor Schrodt was a professor of political science at the University of Kansas and at Northwestern University in Illinois, where he helped develop Northwestern′s programs on Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and the multidisciplinary program in international studies. Dr. Schrodt has also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, the American University in Cairo, the University of California at Davis, Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, and spent a year at the University of Lancaster (England) on a NATO Postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Schrodt′s major areas of research are formal models of political behavior, with an emphasis on international politics, and political methodology. His current research focuses on predicting political change using statistical and pattern recognition methods. He teaches a variety of courses in international relations, with an emphasis on international conflict, and U.S. defense policy. Dr. Schrodt has published more than 75 articles in political science journals including International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy Analysis and the American Political Science Review. Additionally, his Kansas Event Data System computer program won the "Outstanding Computer Software Award" from the American Political Science Association in 1995.