BAILEY: TYPOLOGIES AND TAXONOMIES (PAPER): AN INTRODUCTIONTO CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES: An Introduction to Classification Techniques (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) - Softcover

Buch 78 von 194: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences

Bailey, Kenneth D.

 
9780803952591: BAILEY: TYPOLOGIES AND TAXONOMIES (PAPER): AN INTRODUCTIONTO CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES: An Introduction to Classification Techniques (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803952597 ISBN 13: 9780803952591
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

How do we group different subjects on a variety of variables? Should we use a classification procedure in which only the concepts are classified (typology), one in which only empirical entities are classified (taxonomy), or a combination of both?

Kenneth D Bailey addresses these questions and shows how classification methods can be used to improve research. Beginning with an exploration of the advantages and disadvantages of classification procedures, the book covers topics such as: clustering procedures including agglomerative and divisive methods; the relationship among various classification techniques; how clustering methods compare with related statistical techniques; classification resources; and software packages fo

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Subfield

Research methods, theory, demography and ecology.
Selected Publications

Methods of Social Research. Fourth Edition. 1994.

Sociology and the New Systems Theory. 1994.

"Structure, Structuration, and Autopoiesis." Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1998.

"Systems Theory" in Jonathan Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theory, 2001.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803952597
ISBN 13 
9780803952591
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
90
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