Advances in mixed methods research: theories and applications

Illuminating new ways of conceptualizing and conducting empirical research inthe social sciences and humanities, this book contains contributions from some of the world’s leading experts on qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. The contributions cover all of the main practical and methodological issues and represent a number of different visions of what mixed methods research is and where it is going. INDICE: Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Interaction and Social Science Democracy Around the World Introducing Spatial Dependence Maps as Visual Displaysof Data Measuring Spatial Association and Correlation Measuring Proximity Estimating Spatial Models Summary Chapter 2: Spatially Lagged Dependent VariablesRegression with Spatially Lagged Dependent Variables Estimating the SpatiallyLagged y Model Maximum Likelihood Estimates of the Spatially Lagged Y Model of Democracy Equilibrium Effects in the Spatially Lagged y Model Spatial Dependence in Turnout in Italy Using Different Weights Matrices in a Spatially Lagged Dependent Variable Model The Spatially Lagged Dependent Variable Versus OLS with Dummy Variables Summary Chapter 3: Spatial Error Model The Spatial Error Model Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Spatial Errors Model Example: Democracy and Development Spatially Lagged y Versus Spatial Errors Assessing Spatial Error in Dyadic Trade Flows Summary Chapter 4: Extensions Specifying Connectivities Inference and Model Evaluation Summary Appendix: Software Options References

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-4809-8
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés