Relevant, engaging, and packed with student-focused learning features, this book provides the basic step-by-step introduction to quantitative research and data every student needs.

This selection of key articles on the statistical approach focuses on the advances and uses of quantitative research to address substantive issues in the social sciences. Moving beyond the unhelpful polarity of quantitative and qualitative, the editors cover an impressive range of topics and pull together the ideas and practice of a rich and varied range of quantitative social scientists.

This selection of key articles on the statistical approach focuses on the advances and uses of quantitative research to address substantive issues in the social sciences. Moving beyond the unhelpful polarity of quantitative and qualitative, the editors cover an impressive range of topics and pull together the ideas and practice of a rich and varied range of quantitative social scientists.

This selection of key articles on the statistical approach focuses on the advances and uses of quantitative research to address substantive issues in the social sciences. Moving beyond the unhelpful polarity of quantitative and qualitative, the editors cover an impressive range of topics and pull together the ideas and practice of a rich and varied range of quantitative social scientists.

A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fields Quantitative analysis is an essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas typically receive little training in it. Quantitative Social Science is a practical introduction to data analysis and statistics written especially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the social sciences and allied fields, including business, economics, education, political science, psychology, sociology, public policy, and data science. Proven in classrooms around the world, this one-of-a-kind textbook engages directly with empirical analysis, showing students how to analyze and interpret data using the tidyverse family of R packages. Data sets taken directly from leading quantitative social science research illustrate how to use data analysis to answer important questions about society and human behavior. Emphasizes hands-on learning, not paper-and-pencil statisticsIncludes data sets from actual research for students to test their skills onCovers data analysis concepts such as causality, measurement, and prediction, as well as probability and statistical toolsFeatures a wealth of supplementary exercises, including additional data analysis exercises and programming exercisesOffers a solid foundation for further studyComes with additional course materials online, including notes, sample code, exercises and problem sets with solutions, and lecture slides

Guide to social research on Latin America, comprising an evaluation of current research methods and a presentation of the quantitative research methodology - covers the problems of operationalizing concepts, the quality of data collecting, the appropriateness of Latin America as an analytical unit, etc., appraises the achievements, opportunities and perils of social sciences research in latin america, and includes a directory of data bases and research centres. References.

"Princeton University Press published Imai's textbook, Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction, an introduction to quantitative methods and data science for upper level undergrads and graduates in professional programs, in February 2017. What is distinct about the book is how it leads students through a series of applied examples of statistical methods, drawing on real examples from social science research. The original book was prepared with the statistical software R, which is freely available online and has gained in popularity in recent years. But many existing courses in statistics and data sciences, particularly in some subject areas like sociology and law, use STATA, another general purpose package that has been the market leader since the 1980s. We've had several requests for STATA versions of the text as many programs use it by default. This is a "translation" of the original text, keeping all the current pedagogical text but inserting the necessary code and outputs from STATA in their place"--