Research methods and statistics

Walker, Ian Dr (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780230249882 (Paper)
ISBN: 0230249884 (Paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

RESEARCH METHODS -- Introduction -- The first three stages of designing a research project -- Who will you test and what will this tell you? understanding populations and samples -- Major types of quantitative research -- Qualitative research and questionaires -- Research ethics -- STATISTICS -- Using statistics to describe research findings -- Displaying data with graphs and tables -- Hypothesis testing, and the only two errors you can possibly make with statistics -- Did you see what you expected to see? understanding the chi-squared test -- One of the most useful things you'll ever learn: the normal distribution -- When is a number not a number? understanding levels of measurement -- How to tell whether two sets of numbers are different from each other -- Looking at relationships - measures of correlation -- Analysing and presenting qualitative data -- REPORTS, AND SOME THOUGHTS -- Writing research reports -- A few short warnings about statistics -- Statistics in the real world.