Shively, W. Phillips, 1942-

The craft of political research / Shively, W. Phillips - 9th ed. - Boston : Pearson. c2010 - xiii, 176 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Pearson classics in political science .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Doing research -- Political theories and research topics -- Importance of dimensional thinking -- Problems of measurement: accuracy -- Problems of measurement: precision -- Causal thinking and design of research -- Selection of observations for study -- Introduction to statistics: measuring relationships for interval data -- Introduction to statistics: further topics on measurement of relationships -- Introduction to statistics: inference, or how to gamble on your research.

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Political science--Research--Methodology.

JA71 / .S45 2010

320.072