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.