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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Social inquiry and Bayesian inference
    sub title: rethinking qualitative research
  name:
    name part: Fairfield, Tasha
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Charman, Andrew E.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 661 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Fairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. The book develops concrete guidelines for conducting inference to best explanation given incomplete information; no previous exposure to Bayesian analysis or specialized mathematical skills are needed. Topics covered include constructing rival hypotheses that are neither too simple nor overly complex, assessing the inferential weight of evidence, counteracting cognitive biases, selecting cases, and iterating between theory development, data collection, and analysis. Extensive worked examples apply Bayesian guidelines, showcasing both exemplars of intuitive Bayesian reasoning and departures from Bayesian principles in published case studies drawn from process-tracing, comparative, and multimethod research. Beyond improving inference and analytic transparency, an overarching goal of this book is to revalue qualitative research and place it on more equal footing with respect to quantitative and experimental traditions by illustrating that Bayesianism provides a universally applicable inferential framework." --
  note: Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics and Political Science, Andrew E. Charman, University of California, Berkeley.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Statistical methods
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Bayesian statistical decision theory
  subject:
    topic: Qualitative research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
    topic: Méthodes statistiques
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
    topic: Recherche
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la décision bayésienne
  subject:
    topic: Bayesian statistical decision theory
  subject:
    topic: Qualitative research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Statistical methods
  classification: HA29 .S635 2022
  classification: 300.727
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Strategies for social inquiry
  identifier: 1108421644
  identifier: 9781108421645
  identifier: 1108433359
  identifier: 9781108433358
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211012
    record change date: 20220912181656.2
    record identifier: in00004592710
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng