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Quantile Regression, the first book of Hao and Naiman's two-book series, establishes the seldom recognized link between inequality studies and quantile regression models. Though separate methodological literature exists for each subject,...

Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new information and the technology available for analyzing it. Text Mining brings together a...

The first book to examine the nature, practices, and potential of empathy for understanding and addressing human problems on a global scale Violence and acts of hatred worldwide-from the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11,...

Focusing on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists, this text introduces the regression methods for analysing spatial data. von Chi, Guangqing;Zhu, Jun;

The Handbook of Metrics for Research in Operations Management is a compilation of multi-item scales and objective items that can be used to construct surveys and questionnaires in Operations Management. Such surveys can be sent to...

"Cognitive Science - International Student Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Mind" von Michael J. Spivey ist ein umfassendes Lehrbuch, das eine detaillierte Einführung in die kognitive Wissenschaft bietet. Es untersucht...

This book presents a disciplined, qualitative exploration of case study methods by drawing from naturalistic, holistic, ethnographic, phenomenological and biographic research methods. Robert E. Stake uses and annotates an actual case...

This book is a practical volume that will help lectuers and students see demonstrations of multicultural counseling in practice. The text covers evidence-based practices for working with five major ethnic groups, while weaving in other...

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of scaling theory and construction, focusing on a variety of unidimensional scaling models. The authors present an overview and comparative analysis of such techniques as Thurstone scaling,...

"Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy: Advancing Social Justice Through Eight Policy Sectors" von Dr. Bruce S. Jansson ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit der Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Sozialpolitik in den Vereinigten Staaten...

The Seventh Edition of this bestseller provides a clear contextual model (visually depicted by a series of concentric circles) for examining communication within cultural, microcultural, environmental, sociorelational and perceptual...