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Research methodology
Quantitative
methods resources
General quantitative / statistical resources
"SurfStat Australia"
SurfStat is an online course in introductory statistics based at the
Australian National University. The course covers summarizing and presenting data, variation and probability,
and statistical inference. The web site includes glossary of statistical terms, tables of
contents of statistics textbooks and links to other statistics resources on the web:
http://www.anu.edu.au/nceph/surfstat/surfstat-home/surfstat.html
The
Social Sciences Research and Instructional Council Teaching Resources Depository
The SSRIC/TRD site offers seven teaching modules (based on U.S. datasets), each offering
"a theoretical perspective and background on an important social science topic; a
discussion of methods used to research the topic; and a set of exercises (with a data set)
to teach analytic techniques for arriving at scientifically valid conclusions about the
topic using SPSS or other statistical packages"; an online version of an SPSS
7.5 tutorial; a "downloads" section with data sets and codebooks; links to
social science teaching and research sites; a glossary of statistical and SPSS terms;
standalone exercises (with suggestions for using the exercises in class); and a selection
of other teaching resources such as exercises, tutorials and syllabi.
http://www.csubak.edu/ssric/welcome.htx
Social
Science Reasoning Using Statistics
This site, by J. Chizmar of Illinois State
University, looks at producing, describing and drawing conclusions from data:
http://138.87.168.39/Jack_Chizmar/ECO138/ECO138_Home.html
Data
and Story Library (DASL)
DASL is an online library of small datasets illustrating basic statistical methods. DASL
aims to "provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can
find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students."
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
Survey
Research Center, Princeton University
This site provides a good introduction to the primary survey method applied to the study
of social issues, consumer research and policy analysis:
http://www.princeton.edu/~abelson/index.html
The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms (Howard S. Hoffman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology Bryn Mawr College)
Presented both alphabetically and by suggested learning order:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/statglos/statglos.htm
SOSIG:
Quantitative Research Subject Listing
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/quanmeth.html
Quantitative software packages
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social
Sciences)
http://www.spss.com/
SAS
http://www.sas.com/
Scolari
Scolari is the software division of Sage Publication. The Scolari Web site
offers information about research methods-related software and CD-ROMS, and in
some cases free demonstration versions:
http://www.scolari.co.uk/
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