An innovative research methods book that provides a step-by-step guide to the popular R software. Researchers of any social scientific discipline will benefit tremendously from procedural knowledge in transforming conventionally qualitative data into quantitative reasoning.
- Kenneth C. C. Yang,
This method involves research participants listing what they know or think about the researcher’s topic. This book incorporates free-list analyses with other analytical methods and demonstrates their broad applicability. The book starts with descriptive methods, then outlines a predictive statistical framework. The author explains how to collect, clean, and manage free-list data and how to use R to calculate and visualize them.