An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis

An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis
Author: Herbert Weisberg
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1996-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780803974029

The nature of survey research - The survey process - Sampling procedures - Questionnaire construction - The data collection stage - Coding practices - Designing survey - The process of data analysis - Single-variable statistics - Statistical inference for means - Two-variable tables - Measures of association - Control tables - Correlation and regression - Writing survey reports - Evaluating surveys - The ethics of polls.

The Critical Link 4

The Critical Link 4
Author: Cecilia Wadensjö
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027216786

This book is a collection of papers presented in Stockholm, at the fourth Critical Link conference. The book is a well-balanced mix of academic research and texts of a more practical, professional character.The introducing article explicitly addresses the issue of professionalism and how this has been dealt with in research on interpreting. The following two sections provide examples of recent research, applying various theoretical approaches. Section four reports on the development of current, more or less local standards. Section five raises issues of professional ideology. The final section tells about new training initiatives and programmes. All contributions were selected because of their relevance to the theme of professionalisation of interpreting in the community. The volume is the fourth in a series, documenting the advance of a whole new empirical and professional field. It is of central interest for all people involved in this development, interpreters, researchers, trainers and others.

iOS Forensic Analysis

iOS Forensic Analysis
Author: Sean Morrissey
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430233435

iOS Forensic Analysis provides an in-depth look at investigative processes for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. The methods and procedures outlined in the book can be taken into any courtroom. With never-before-published iOS information and data sets that are new and evolving, this book gives the examiner and investigator the knowledge to complete a full device examination that will be credible and accepted in the forensic community.

The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
Author: Jack Sidnell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2012-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118340450

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics. Ideal as an introduction to the field for upper level undergraduates and as an in-depth review of the latest developments for graduate level students and established scholars Five sections outline the history and theory, methods, fundamental concepts, and core contexts in the study of conversation, as well as topics central to conversation analysis Written by international conversation analysis experts, the book covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, from reviewing underlying structures of conversation, to describing conversation analysis' relationship to anthropology, communication, linguistics, psychology, and sociology

Exact Analysis of Discrete Data

Exact Analysis of Discrete Data
Author: Karim F. Hirji
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2005-11-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 142003619X

Researchers in fields ranging from biology and medicine to the social sciences, law, and economics regularly encounter variables that are discrete or categorical in nature. While there is no dearth of books on the analysis and interpretation of such data, these generally focus on large sample methods. When sample sizes are not large or the data are

Cohort Analysis

Cohort Analysis
Author: Norval D. Glenn
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2005-01-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780761922155

A method for studying changes in group patterns -- particularly groups based on age -- cohort analysis seeks to isolate changes attributable to alterations in behaviour or attitudes within an age group; as an example of behaviour change, the pattern of consumption of alcohol within a cohort is analyzed.