This final volume of the Focus Group Kit off ers an overview of important principles guiding focus group research, a systematic and verifiable analysis strategy, and multiple approaches and strategies for analysis. '
This book examines ways to analyze complex surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This new edition incorporates recent practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the new analytic approach for categorical data analysis (logistic regression), reviews new software and provides an introduction to the model-based ......
The techniques for performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services are introduced in this volume. After describing a model for assessment and improvement-oriented analysis of human service systems using CEA and CBA methods, the author then shows how to analyze each of the links between the expenditure of resources and the achievement of long-term programme objectives. Examples of each step in understanding and improving relationships between resources used, procedures, processes induced and outcomes generated are drawn from the author's own long and varied experience. They are designed to encourage readers to conduct their own quantitative and qualitative analyses of cost - procedure - process - outcome paths in human services.
Using real case studies from New York where GIS have been at the centre of a successful programme, the contributors to this study present methods of combining geographic information systems and application software with strategies to reduce crime.'
Using real case studies from New York where GIS have been at the centre of a successful programme, the contributors to this study present methods of combining geographic information systems and application software with strategies to reduce crime.'
This volume introduces the theory, method, and applications of one type of conjoint analysis technique -- techniques which are used to study individual judgement and decision processes. Based upon Information Integration Theory, metric conjoint analysis allows for evaluation of multi-attribute alternatives based on interval level data. The model, which justifies use of metric conjoint methods, and the statistical techniques drawn from it, are the core of this monograph. Also described are applications of the model in marketing, psychology, economics, sociology, planning and other disciplines, all of which relate to forecasting the decision-making behaviour of individuals.
All kinds of human behaviour are observed and written about or documented. Ethnographers can be seen as "documentary accountants" - they observe and provide analysis. This book shows how to use documentary works as data sources, and how qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques can be combined. It shows how care must be taken with sampling ......
This book describes the resources which can be drawn from discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and soci al theory and also provides a comprehensive and well-illustr ated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. '
This book describes the resources which can be drawn from discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and soci al theory and also provides a comprehensive and well-illustr ated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. '
