SAGE Reference's all-encompassing, new Encyclopedia of Research Design examines the full spectrum of research design strategies

Los Angeles - (April 19, 2010) — The field of research design formally approaches problem solving, thinking, and acquiring knowledge. Research designers plan and conduct empirical research using both quantitative and qualitative methods, clearly defined objectives, statistical tools, tests, and analyses.

Covering this intricate field like never before is SAGE Reference's comprehensive, new, three-volume Encyclopedia of Research Design. It clearly reveals how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results.

Accessibly written by the field's leading experts, more than 500 A-to-Z entries delineate the history of research design and its terms, theories, laws, principles, leaders, publications, and organizations. The vast wealth of information is helpfully organized in a Reader's Guide into key areas, such as:

• Descriptive Statistics
• Distributions
• Hypothesis Testing
• Inferential Statistics
• Item Response Theory
• Mathematical and Measurement Concepts
• Qualitative Research
• Reliability of Scores
• Research Design Concepts, Ethics, and Validity Issues
• Sampling and Scaling
• Statistical Assumptions
• Types of Variables

Summaries of advantages and disadvantages of often-used strategies are presented, as well as hundreds of sample tables, figures, and equations based on real-life cases. Reviews of seminal research articles and contemporary tools, such as software and statistical procedures, further set this reference source apart from other works on the topic.

All public and academic libraries will want to purchase SAGE's Encyclopedia of Research Design so students, researchers, and scholars have the ideal resource for exploring both the original and newest branches of this essential, multidisciplinary field.

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General Editor Neil J. Salkind is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas.

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