Dictionary of statistics and methodology : a nontechnical guide for the social sciences /

Vogt, W. Paul.

Dictionary of statistics and methodology : a nontechnical guide for the social sciences / W. Paul Vogt. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2005. - xix, 355 p. : ill. 23 cm.

This dictionary is nontechnical (definitions do not contain terms more obscure than the one being defined), self contained (each term used in the definitions is itself defined in the dictionary), descriptive not prescriptive (terms are described as they are actually used rather than how they "should" be used), and comprehensive (includes elementary terms and concepts, methodology and design terms, concepts from qualitative research methods and related terms from theory).

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