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    <title>Research methods in practice</title>
    <subTitle>strategies for description and causation</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Remler, Dahlia K.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Van Ryzin, Gregg G. (Gregg Gerard)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1961-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2015</dateIssued>
    <edition>Second edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxxvi, 606 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm</extent>
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PART I: FOUNDATIONS 
/ CH 1. Research in the Real World
/ CH 2. Theory and Models
/ CH 3. Qualitative Research //
PART II: STRATEGIES FOR DESCRIPTION 
/ CH 4. Measurement
/ CH 5. Sampling
/ CH 6. Secondary Data
/ CH 7. Surveys and Other Primary Data //
PART III: STATISTICAL TOOLS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION 
/ CH 8. Making Sense of the Numbers
/ CH 9. Making Sense of Inferential Statistics
/ CH 10. Making Sense of Multivariate Statistics //
PART IV: STRATEGIES FOR CAUSATION 
/ CH 11. Causation
/ CH 12. Observational Studies With Control Variables
/ CH 13.Multiple Regression to Disentangle Causal Effects
/ CH 14. Randomized Experiments
/ CH 15. Natural and Quasi Experiments //
PART V: CONTEXT AND COMMUNICATION 
/ CH 16. The Politics, Production, and Ethics of Research
/ CH 17. How to Find, Review and Present Research
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Dahlia K. Remler, Baruch College, City University of New York, Gregg G. Van Ryzin, Rutgers University, Newark.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-586) and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching (Graduate)</topic>
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