Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis / Edition 1

by Anthony (Tony) P. (Peter) M. (MacMillan) Coxon

Overview

If you need hints on how to collect, describe, compare and analyze data, you will find them in this handy guide. The author addresses specification elaboration, and sampling of the "domain" or what is to be sorted. There is also help on setting the criterion, the pre-test, administration, and recording of results. The author gives special consideration to problems of categorization illustrated with a real research example.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803972377
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/08/1999
Series:	Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences , #127
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Tony Coxon was an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Studies. He was also Emeritus Professor, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. He taught MDS and advanced quantitative methods for more than 30 years and wrote numerous articles on the various techniques and models associated with MDS. Most notably, Dr. Coxon published three methodology texts: The User's Guide to Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); Key Texts in Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); and Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis (1999, Sage QASS series). He wrote 41 entries in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, and most recently wrote the entry on multidimensional scaling for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2003).  

Table of Contents

Introduction
Collecting Free-Sorting Data
Describing and Comparing Sortings
Analyising Sorting Data