External Validity and Evidence Accumulation

Summary

This Element develops uniting principles that constitute the qualitative and quantitative assumptions that form the basis for a quantitative relationship between constituent studies. This framework is applied to three approaches to studying general social phenomena: meta-analysis, replication, and extrapolation.

Product details

• Authors: Tara Slough, Tara (New York University) Tyson Slough, Scott A. Tyson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009486033
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948603-3
• No. of pages: 108
• Series: Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general