Binding: Hardcover
Description: This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences - - especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification "big data " or "digital humanities." The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool applicable to a myriad of materials from the past. Their book accessible to complete beginners offers detailed advice and practical tips on how to build a dataset from historical sources and how to categorize it according to specific research questions. Drawing on examples from works in social political economic and cultural history the book guides readers through a wide range of methods including sampling cross - tabulations statistical tests regression factor analysis network analysis sequence analysis event history analysis geographical information systems text analysis and visualization. The requirements advantages and pitfalls of these techniques are presented in layperson's terms avoiding mathematical terminology. Conceived primarily for historians the book will prove invaluable to other humanists as well as to social scientists looking for a nontechnical introduction to quantitative methods. Covering the most recent techniques in addition to others not often enough discussed the book will also have much to offer to the most seasoned practitioners of quantification.
Title: Quantitative Methods In The Humanities An Introduction
Author(s): Zalc Claire
Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
Barcode: 9780813942681
Pages: 184 Pages, 11 Graphs, 10 Tables
Publication Date: 3/13/2019
Category: Social Research & Statistics