Strategies to approximate random sampling and assignment / Patrick Dattalo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dattalo, Patrick.

Series:

Pocket guides to social work research methods.

Pocket guides to social work research methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sampling (Statistics).

Social service--Statistical methods.

Social service.

Social sciences--Statistical methods.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a single source of a diverse set of tools that will maximize a study's validity when RS and RA are neither possible nor practical. Readers are guided in selecting and implementing an appropriate strategy, including exemplar sampling, sequential sampling, randomization tests, multiple imputation, and much more.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Basic Concepts and Assumptions; 2 Methodological Alternatives and Supplements to Random Sampling; 3 Statistical Alternatives and Supplements to Random Sampling; 4 Methodological Alternatives and Supplements to Random Assignment; 5 Statistical Alternatives and Supplements to Random Assignment; 6 Summary and Conclusions; Glossary; A; C; D; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; Annotated Bibliography; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612336492

1-282-33649-5

0-19-970293-4

OCLC:

922954612