Jacques Tacq is Assistant Professor of Methodology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium. He is also Visiting Professor at the Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex.
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PART ONE: FROM THEORY TO METHODOLOGY Types of Research Problems and Research Situations A Classification of Classical Techniques of Multivariate Analysis The Analysis Technique as the Mirror of the Research Problem PART TWO: FROM METHODOLOGY TO ANALYSIS The Experimental Design The Effect of Humour on Financial Concession Multiple Regression Analysis The Causes of Childlessness Partial Correlation and Path Analysis The Causal Influence of Christian Beliefs on Anti-Semitism Analysis of Variance and Covariance The Effect of Interaction of Monetary Rewards and Task Interest on Motivation Two-Group Discriminant Analysis Poor and Rich Neighbourhoods Factor Analysis The Investigation of Marital Adjustment Canonical Correlation Analysis The Study of Economic Inequality and Political Instability Techniques with Multiple Dependent Variables
`For the statistician seeking a fresh and original angle on the methods in question, this book will prove stimulating and thought provoking' - The Statistician `One of the difficulties facing teachers of social research is the lack of sociological examples in current textbooks when it comes to explaining statistical findings in substantive terms. We can only appreciate the effort Tacq has made in searching out the examples he has chosen' - European Sociological Review