Taking a unique self coaching approach, this book will enable students to understand how to work their way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self sufficiency, resourcefulness, and drive to succeed. Each chapter contains self coaching challenges so that readers can work out what works for them as individuals and generate fresh ideas and options to enable them to move forwards.
Taking a unique self coaching approach, this book will enable students to understand how to work their way through the various challenges posed by PhD...
Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research addresses an educational deficiency in the social and behavioral sciences. This 2006 book was the first of its kind to specifically address the comprehensive introduction to the mathematical principles needed by modern social scientists. The material introduces basic mathematical principles necessary to do analytical work in the social sciences, starting from first principles, but without unnecessary complexity. The core purpose is to present fundamental notions in standard notation and standard language with a clear, unified framework...
Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research addresses an educational deficiency in the social and behavioral sciences. This 2006 book was ...
An Update of the Most Popular Graduate-Level Introductions to Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists
Now that Bayesian modeling has become standard, MCMC is well understood and trusted, and computing power continues to increase, Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach, Third Edition focuses more on implementation details of the procedures and less on justifying procedures. The expanded examples reflect this updated approach.
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A chapter on Bayesian decision...
An Update of the Most Popular Graduate-Level Introductions to Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists
A self-coaching guide for students focused on challenging them to make more of their university experience. This book uses a coaching philosophy which bridges the gap between student life, degree performance, employability skills and health and well-being by challenging the reader to ask 'how do I want my student experience to be, and what can I do to make it like that?'.
A self-coaching guide for students focused on challenging them to make more of their university experience. This book uses a coaching philosophy wh...
What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis. The authors, Meier and Gill, combine statistics with normative concerns. They consider how things might be, and they focus on subsets of cases that differ from the norm. Their approach uses regression and methods in a qualitative, yet rigorous manner.In
What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis. The authors, Meier and Gill, combine statistics with ...
