Author: Robert M. Groves
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: survey, methodology, series, costs, errors, wiley
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0471678511
ISBN-13: 9780471678519
The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists."Survey Errors and Survey Costs is a well-written, well-presented, and highly readable text that should be on every error-conscious statisticians bookshelf. Any courses that cover the theory and design of surveys should certainly h
Author: Mark S. Litwi
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: survey, 2ed, kit, psychometrics, assess, interpret
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0761925619
ISBN-13: 9780761925613
"Pilot testing is very good and the coverage of reliability and validity is well-developed and well-written." --Bonnie Rader, California State University, Long Beach "Mark Litwin does a great job of constructing ’friendly’ examples, and keeping the tone of the text more of a conversation than an excerpt from a graduate level psychometrics or statistics textbook. He also includes a chapter on multicultural issues and how they affect every phase of survey design and use." --Patrick R. Powaser, PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY How can you pilot test new and established surveys? How can you impr
Author: Mark S. Litwi
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: survey, vol, kit, reliability, measure, validity
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1995-08-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0803957041
ISBN-13: 9780803957046
Improving the accuracy of a survey is the focus of Mark S. Litwin’s book, which shows how to assess and interpret the quality of survey data by thoroughly examining the survey instrument used. He explains how to code and pilot test new and established surveys. In addition, he covers issues such as: how to measure reliability (including test-retest, alternate form, internal consistency, inter-observer and intra-observer reliability); how to measure validity (including content, criterion and construct validity); how to address cross-cultural issues in survey research; and how to scale and
Author: Dr. Arlene G. Fink
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: survey, vol, series, kit, questions
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0761925791
ISBN-13: 9780761925798
"I am truly amazed at how complete this booklet is. What a wealth of material to help in developing questions!" --Bonnie Rader, California State University, Long Beach Aimed at helping readers prepare and use reliable and valid survey questions, How to Ask Survey Questions, 2nd shows readers how to do the following: * Ask valid and reliable questions for the context * Determine whether to use open or closed questions * Choose the right type of measurement (categorical, nominal or ordinal) for responses to survey questions * Ask questions that get at attitude, behavior, and knowledge * Develop
Author: Arlene G. Fink
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: survey, kit, data, analyze
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1995-08-03
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0803973861
ISBN-13: 9780803973862
Clear and concise, How to Analyze Survey Data begins with a basic overview demonstrating what statistics can do for surveys, describing measurement scales in detail and showing how to choose a method to analyze results. The book includes checklists and guidelines as well as practice exercises to enable the reader to monitor their progress. A discussion of regression, hypothesis testing, screening, and transforming data is also included.
Authors:Paul P. Biemer, Lars E. Lyberg,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: survey, methodology, series, quality, introduction, wiley
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0471193755
ISBN-13: 9780471193753
Peruse the history of survey research and the essential concepts for data quality. With an emphasis on total survey error, the authors review principles and concepts in the field and examine important unresolved issues in survey methods. Spanning a range of topics dealing with the quality of data collected through the survey process, they focus on such key issues as: Major sources of survey error, examining the origins of each error source most successful methods for reducing errors from those sources Methods most often used in practice for evaluating the effects of the source on total survey
Authors:Willem E. Saris, Irmtraud N. Gallhofer,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: survey, wiley, series, methodology, research, design, analysis, questionnaires, evaluation
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-08-03
List price: $95.95
ISBN-10: 0470114959
ISBN-13: 9780470114957
Features the essential methodologies and statistical tools for developing reliable and valid survey questionnaires Modern survey design requires the consideration of many variables that will ultimately impact the quality of the collected data. Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research outlines the important decisions that researchers need to make throughout the survey design process and provides the statistical knowledge and innovative tools that are essential when approaching these choices. Over fifteen years of survey design research has been referenced in order
