SAGE Reference has announced a new three-volume Encyclopedia of Research Design. The encyclopedia is projected to reveal how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results.
According to SAGE, the resource is written by leading experts, and features more than 500 A-to-Z entries delineating the history of research design and its terms, theories, laws, principles, leaders, publications and organisations. The information is organised in a Reader's Guide into key areas, such as descriptive statistics; distributions; hypothesis testing; inferential statistics; item response theory; mathematical and measurement concepts; qualitative research; reliability of scores; research design concepts; ethics and validity issues; sampling and scaling; statistical assumptions; and types of variables.
Summaries of advantages and disadvantages of often-used strategies are presented, as well as hundreds of sample tables, figures and equations based on real-life cases. Also featured are reviews of seminal research articles and contemporary tools, such as software and statistical procedures.
The encyclopedia is targeted at public as well as academic libraries.
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