Research methods: general

Examines the role of prison gangs and their members in controlling life in prison.

Using numerous examples with real data, this textbook closely integrates the learning of statistics with the learning of R.

This book describes psychological research methods that treat the behavior of living organisms as purposeful rather than mechanical.

This book addresses common questions from HCI researchers when trying to do statistical analysis on their data.

This book describes psychological research methods that treat the behavior of living organisms as purposeful rather than mechanical.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

This analytical history of World War I offers a rigorous yet accessible training in game theory, and a survey of modern political science research.

This analytical history of World War I offers a rigorous yet accessible training in game theory, and a survey of modern political science research.

This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigourous and useful to development policy.

A call to arms for researchers to embrace their comparative intuition and combine in-depth stories with general lessons from their research.

Law can keep up with rapid technological change by reflecting our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

Advances convergence of sociology and computer science, as equal partners in exploring the dynamic structure of online communities.

An introductory overview of spatial analysis and statistics through GIS, including worked examples and critical analysis of results.

Surveys recent models and algorithms characterizing, predicting, optimizing, and explaining team performance in a variety of settings.

Provides concrete guidance, grounded in scientific literature, for researchers to build creative confidence in their work.

Law can keep up with rapid technological change by reflecting our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

Presents an analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek).

Examines the role of prison gangs and their members in controlling life in prison.

Presents an overview of how complex systems from a variety of fields can be modelled using the principles of quantum mechanics.

Advances convergence of sociology and computer science, as equal partners in exploring the dynamic structure of online communities.

An essential introduction to developing research skills and conducting practitioner research in the field of education.

An introductory overview of spatial analysis and statistics through GIS, including worked examples and critical analysis of results.

Presents an overview of how complex systems from a variety of fields can be modelled using the principles of quantum mechanics.

Surveys recent models and algorithms characterizing, predicting, optimizing, and explaining team performance in a variety of settings.

This comprehensive text introduces current scientific research with interesting, familiar issues to engage students.

Management research is criticised for poor research practices and not addressing important problems.

An in-depth, comprehensive and practical guide to egocentric network analysis, focusing on fundamental theoretical, research design, and analytic issues.

Emphasizing interpretation of results, this hands-on guide explains why, when, and how to use mixed models with your data.

This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence.

Written by an interdisciplinary team of global experts, this book is an invaluable tool for anyone learning about research methods.

Emphasizing interpretation of results, this hands-on guide explains why, when, and how to use mixed models with your data.

This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence.

Management research is criticised for poor research practices and not addressing important problems.

Written by an interdisciplinary team of global experts, this book is an invaluable tool for anyone learning about research methods.

Looks at the use of Twitter as a data source.

This seamless introduction to statistics and research methods identifies various research areas and analyzes how one approaches them statistically.

This seamless introduction to statistics and research methods identifies various research areas and analyzes how one approaches them statistically.

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning.

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning.

Provides guidance for Bayesian updating in case study, process-tracing, and comparative research, in order to refine intuition and improve inferences from qualitative evidence.

Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

An innovative, big data approach to tracking the impact and benefits of publicly funded research, focusing on food safety.