The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth : A Dialogue Between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology

Eric Brian
Hardcover - $252.95

Chaos and Catastrophe Theories

Courtney Brown
Paperback - $35.95

Chaos and catastrophe theories have become one of the major frontiers in the social sciences. Brown helps to clarify this complex new technique for modeling by approaching it with the following questions: What is Chaos? How can it be measured? How ar ...

Experimental Design & Analysis

Steven R. Brown
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"Brown and Melamed's book is one of the best concise treatments of the design and analysis of experiments that I have seen. The authors begin by showing the significance of variability (variance) for the analysis of experiments, and clearly illustrat ...

Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research

Timothy A. Brown
Paperback - $98.95

The first and only complete resource on the details of using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) as an analytic tool, this book emphasizes the practical and conceptual aspects of CFA over math and formulas. Rich examples are derived from actual resear ...

Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research :

Timothy A. Brown
Hardcover - $157.95

Emphasizing practical and theoretical aspects of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) rather than mathematics or formulas, Timothy A. Brown uses rich examples derived from the psychology, management, and sociology literatures to provide in-depth treatm ...

Essays on the History of British Sociological Research

Martin Bulmer
Paperback - $96.95

This book traces the history of British sociology and empirical social research over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes the census of population, the classic poverty surveys of Booth and Rowntree, the slow growth of social science between ...

Finding Philosophy in Social Science

Mario Bunge
Hardcover - $157.95

Written by an eminent and original thinker in the philosophy of science, this book takes a fresh, unorthodox look at the key philosophical concepts and assumptions of the social sciences. Mario Bunge contends that social scientists (anthropologists, ...

Reliability and Validity Assessment

Edward G. Carmines
Paperback - $36.95

This guide demonstrates how social scientists assess the reliability and validity of empirical measurements. This monograph is a good starting point for those who want to familiarize themselves with the current debates over "appropriate" measureme ...

Making Realism Work : Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Bob Carter
Hardcover - $327.95

In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, ...

Data Envelopment Analysis : Theory, Methodology and Applications

A. Aabrahamm Charnes
Paperback - $210.95

This book establishes a reference source for DEA that accomplishes the following seven objectives: Motivates DEA as a new approach to organizing and analyzing data beyond its origin in efficiency analyses; Presents an integrated framework, and standa ...