LibGuides: Library Basics: Narrowing and Broadening Your Topic!: Choosing a Methodology

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Quantitative Data Analysis
Approaches to the interpretation and understanding of numerical data produced from methods such as survey research. Click anywhere on the diagram for a specific method.

Little Green Books
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, provide short and accessible texts on all kinds of quantitative methods. Providing clear statistical explanations, straightforward empirical examples, and ready-to-use procedures, these supplementary texts are appropriate across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Want to learn about analysis of variance? We have a Little Green Book for that! Our brief volumes address a spectrum of advanced quantitative topics including regression, models, data analysis, experimental design, measurement, survey data, and more.

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Qualitative Data Analysis
Approaches to the interpretation and understanding of material arising from the use of qualitative methods, such as transcripts from interviews and focus groups, field notes etc. For more Information. click anywhere on the diagram for a specific method.

Little Blue Books
Provide short and accessible texts on all kinds of qualitative methods. Providing clear explanations, and commentary on both theoretical and practical considerations in the implementation of qualitative research. Address a full range of advanced qualitative topics including writing up qualitative research, participatory action research, feminist fieldwork analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography.

Mixed Methods Research: A Guide to the Field
Guide TO different methodological considerations and contexts shape the process of mixed methods research that underlies mixed methods research practice.