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In Analysing Quantitative Data, Charles A. Scherbaum and Kristen M. Shockley guide the reader through Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis, Basic Components of Quantitative Data Analysis, Conducting Quantitative Data Analysis, Examples of Quantitative Data Analysis and Conclusions. An appendix contains Excel Formulas.
Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis
Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis
Questions concerning the nature of reality and the creation of knowledge were once the sole province of philosophy and something that researchers rarely considered as there was a dominant and widely shared paradigm for conceptualizing scientific research. Thus, there was rarely a need for a business, organizational or management researcher to articulate their underlying assumptions about the nature of reality (e.g. objective, subjective) and how knowledge can be created. Times have changed. Research in the business, organizational and management sciences now uses a wide variety of different paradigms with vastly different assumptions about the nature of reality and how knowledge can and should be created (Buchanan and Bryman, 2009; Deetz, 1996). For example, articles drawing on epistemologies ranging from positivism ...
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