Social research and statistics

This book helps organizations discover the essential insights from the concept of "e;Work-Life-Flow"e; – a vital resource for understanding occupational health in today's flexible work environments, including remote and hybrid setups.

Although the Micro/Small and Medium Enterprises (M/SMEs) in India (as also in other countries) make significant contributions to the economy (with about 30% share in GDP, 50% share in exports, and more than 60% share in employment), their developmental needs are addressed primarily through the facilitation of the external environment.

This book helps organizations discover the essential insights from the concept of "e;Work-Life-Flow"e; – a vital resource for understanding occupational health in today's flexible work environments, including remote and hybrid setups.

This 2nd edition provides a comprehensive, updated review of current knowledge on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor.

This book provides an essential resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of networked learning.

The visual inputs we receive can be collectively called visual data.

This 2nd edition provides a comprehensive, updated review of current knowledge on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor.

This book presents the latest behavioral research findings on workplace safety to assist practitioners and policymakers in achieving and maintaining good health for all workers.

Getting a doctorate in Europe is supremely attractive for young Catholic priests from the Global South.

This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistical methods for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, researchers, and other professionals interested in the areas of criminology or criminal justice.

This book presents the latest behavioral research findings on workplace safety to assist practitioners and policymakers in achieving and maintaining good health for all workers.

This book addresses the topic of science education, from the viewpoint of the theory of radical constructivism.

The author takes readers on a journey of a large number of issues in designing actual studies of knowing and learning in the classroom, exploring actual data, and putting readers face to face with problems that he actually or possibly encountered, and what he has done or possibly could have done.

In a number of academic disciplines, auto/biography and auto/ethnography have become central means of critiquing of the ways in which research represents individuals and their cultures.

This book introduces Systemic Human Resources Management (Sys HRM) as the much-needed answer to people management in a complex context.

This book demonstrates, via formal statements and empirical illustrations, that nonlinearities in social processes can be modeled systematically to create solutions with practical applications in the institutional forms of paid employment, schooling, and familial relations including marital and kinship ties and the rearing of children.

This book demonstrates, via formal statements and empirical illustrations, that nonlinearities in social processes can be modeled systematically to create solutions with practical applications in the institutional forms of paid employment, schooling, and familial relations including marital and kinship ties and the rearing of children.

This book presents peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistical research presented at the Italian Statistical Society’s international conference on “Statistics for Innovation”, SIS 2025, held in Genoa, Italy, June 16-18, 2025.

This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistical methods for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, researchers, and other professionals interested in the areas of criminology or criminal justice.

As Africa continues to rise as a global economic and cultural force, more scholarly attention must be paid to the diverse and dynamic world of careers and professional development on the African continent.

This book was inspired by years of questions asked by non-statistical professionals, from social scientists, public policy analysts, regulatory affairs specialists, engineers, and physical scientists.

This book challenges the notion that extreme professional expertise is the only path to success, advocating instead for the concept of 'professional generalism' as a complementary approach.

This book challenges the notion that extreme professional expertise is the only path to success, advocating instead for the concept of 'professional generalism' as a complementary approach.

As Africa continues to rise as a global economic and cultural force, more scholarly attention must be paid to the diverse and dynamic world of careers and professional development on the African continent.

This book was inspired by years of questions asked by non-statistical professionals, from social scientists, public policy analysts, regulatory affairs specialists, engineers, and physical scientists.

This book presents peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistical research presented at the Italian Statistical Society’s international conference on “Statistics for Innovation”, SIS 2025, held in Genoa, Italy, June 16-18, 2025.

This book presents peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistical research presented at the Italian Statistical Society’s international conference on “Statistics for Innovation”, SIS 2025, held in Genoa, Italy, June 16-18, 2025.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to designing rigorous and effective network science tools using the statistical software platforms Stata, R, and Python.

This book introduces Systemic Human Resources Management (Sys HRM) as the much-needed answer to people management in a complex context.

This book comprehensively covers various causal mediation analysis (CMA) methods developed across multiple fields, organizing them into a reader-friendly progression of methodological advancements.

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology.

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology.

This comprehensive textbook equips students of economics and business, as well as industry professionals, with essential principles, techniques, and applications of applied statistics, statistical testing, and multivariate data analysis.