TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollock,Philip H.
TI  - The essentials of political analysis
SN  - 9781608716869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JA 86 P776e 2012
U1  - 320.072 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - CQ Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Investigación
KW  - Metodología
N1  - This student-friendly text provides readers with an invaluable guide to simple statistics and the basics of political analysis; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The definition and measurement of concepts --  Measuring and describing variables --  Proposing explanations, framing hypotheses and making comparisons --  Research design and the logic of control --  Making controlled comparisons --  Foundations of statistical inference --  Tests of significance and measures of association --  Correlation and linear regression --  Logistic regression --  Thinking empirically, thinking probabilistically
ER  -