19/19 Quantitative Readings
Readings
BAWDEN, D. (1990). User-oriented evaluation of information systems and services . England : Gower.
BRYMAN, A. (2006). Integrating quantitative and qualitative research: how is it done? Qualitative Research, 6 (1), pp.97-113.[Online] Access this resource online
BURNS, R., 2000. Introduction to Research Methods London : Sage.
GRIFFITHS , J.R. , Hartley, R.J. and Willson, J.P. (2002). An improved method of studying user-system interaction by combining transaction log analysis and protocol analysis. Information Research , 7 (4). [Online] http://informationr.net/ir/7-4/paper139.html
KRUGER, D. J. (2003) 'Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods in community Research', The Community Psychologist, 36, pp.18-19.
NEWTON , R.R. and RUDESTAM, K.E., 1999. Your statistical consultant: answers to your data analysis questions London : Sage
O'NEILL, R. (2008) The advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and quantitative research methods. [Online] http://www.roboneill.co.uk/papers/research_methods.htm
ROBSON, C. (2002). Real world research: a resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers. London : Blackwell.
ROWNTREE, D., 1991. Statistics without tears: a primer for non-mathematicians London :Penguin.
STEPHEN, P. and HORNBY, S., 1997. Simple statistics for Library & information professionals 2 nd ed. Library Association
STRAUSS, A. and CORBIN. J. Basics of qualitative research ( 2nd ed). Sage, 1998.
Useful Websites
Longitude toolkit
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/longitude/index.php
Questionnaire/survey example
http://wads.le.ac.uk/gg/orm/timingform.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/iss/documentation/top/top2.pdf
Quantitative vs Qualitative Interview
http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU17.html
Observation Q&A
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/918190708.Ch.r.html
http://wiki.answers.com/
Hypothesis
http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html#Heading6
Causality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality#cite_note-dict-0
External validity
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Samples/externalvalidity.html
Reliability and validity
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/relval/pop2a.cfm
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/relval/pop2b.cfm
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/Colosi/lcolosi2.htm
Descriptive statistics
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php
http://www.le.ac.uk/bl/gat/virtualfc/Stats/descrip.html
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/A28521.html
The mean, median and mode
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book8/bk8i5/bk8_5i2.htm
Inferential statistics
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statinf.php
http://hsc.uwe.ac.uk/dataanalysis/quantInf.asp
http://www.sdecnet.com/psychology/stathelp.htm
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/672/05/
http://www.sfu.ca/~richards/Zen/show9/ch9.html
Population, sampling and other related concepts
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/basic_definitions.html#popn
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/samp/index.html
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/sampling.html#randsamp
http://www.custominsight.com/articles/random-sampling.asp
SurveyMonkey
Bristol Online Surveys (BOS)
SPSS
