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• Qualitative Research Resources – Books, Journals, and Helpful Links
• Abelson, Robert P. 1995. Statistics as Principled Argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Agresti, Alan, and Barbara Finlay. 2009. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Babbie, Earl. 2013. The Practice of Social Research. 13th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
• Bryman, Alan. 2012. Social Research Methods. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Burdess, Neil. 2010. Starting Statistics: A Short, Clear Guide. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Cole, Stephen. 1972. The Sociological Method. Chicago: Markham Publishing Company.
• Cramer, Duncan, and Dennis Howitt. 2004. The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics: A Practical Resource for Students in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Creswell, John W. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mix Methods Approaches. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• DeMaris, Alfred. 2005. Regression with Social Data: Modeling Continuous and Limited Response Variables. New Jersey: Willey.
• Fioramonti, Lorenzo. 2014. How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics. London: Zed Books.
• Hakim, Catherine. 1982. Secondary Analysis in Social Research: A Guide to Data Sources and Methods with Examples. London; Boston: Allen & Unwin.
• Hardy, Melissa A., and Alan Bryman, eds. 2009. Handbook of Data Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Huff, Darrell, and Irving Geis. 1954. How to Lie with Statistics. New York: Norton.
• Irvine, John, Ian Miles, and Jeff Evans. 1979. Demystifying Social Statistics. London: Pluto Press.
• Kenny, David A. 1979. Correlation and Causality. New York: Wiley
• Kent, Raymond A. 2001. Data Construction and Data Analysis for Survey Research. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Krieg, Eric J. 2012. Statistics and Data Analysis for Social Science. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
• Larson, Ron, and Elizabeth Farber. 2015. Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World. 6th ed. Boston: Pearson.
• Lune, Howard, Enrique S. Pumar, and Ross Koppel, eds. 2010. Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis: A Reader for Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Marsh, Catherine, and Jane Elliott. 2008. Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Paulos, John Allen. 1995. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. New York: Anchor Books.
• Ragin, Charles C., and Lisa M. Amoroso. 2011. Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications
• Rosenberg, Morris. 1968. The Logic of Survey Analysis. New York: Basic Books.
• Salkind, Neil J., ed. 2007. Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Singleton, Royce, and Bruce C. Straits. 2010. Approaches to Social Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Teddie, Charles, and Abbas Tashakkori. 2009. Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Treiman, Donald J. 2009. Quantitative Data Analysis: Doing Social Research to Test Ideas. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Vogt, W. Paul. 2011. Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences. London: SAGE.
• Weinstein, Jay A. 2010. Applying Social Statistics: An Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning in Sociology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Wysocki, Diane Kholos. 2008. Readings in Social Research Methods. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.
• List of National Statistical Services – Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org
• Sociological Research Online: socresonline.org.uk
• This is Statistics: thisisstatistics.org
• United Nations – Statistics: unstats.un.org

Journals:

• Electronic Journal of Probability
• Social Research
• Sociological Methodology
• Sociological Methods & Research
• Sociological Research Online

Organizations:

• American Statistical Association: amstat.org
• Center For Statistics And The Social Sciences: csss.washington.edu
• International Statistical Institute: isi-web.org
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research: icpsr.umich.edu
• Social Research Association: the-sra.org.uk
• Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: ssisi.ie
• Statistical Society of Canada: ssc.ca
• Statistical Society of Australia: statsoc.org.au

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