Author Description

The Routledge Reviewer's Guide To Mixed Methods Analysis Is A Groundbreaking Edited Book - The First Devoted Solely To Mixed Methods Research Analyses, Or Mixed Analyses. Each Of The 30 Seminal Chapters, Authored By Internationally Renowned Scholars, Provides A Simple And Practical Introduction To A Method Of Mixed Analysis. Each Chapter Demonstrates How To Conduct The Analysis In Easy-to-understand Language. Many Of The Chapters Present New Topics That Have Never Been Written Before, And All Chapters Offer Cutting-edge Approaches To Analysis. The Book Contains The Following Four Sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches To Qualitative Data (e.g., Factor Analysis Of Text, Multidimensional Scaling Of Qualitative Data); Part Ii Qualitative Approaches To Quantitative Data (e.g., Qualitizing Data, Mixed Methodological Discourse Analysis); Part Iii Inherently Mixed Analysis Approaches (e.g., Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis, Social Media Analytics As Mixed Analysis, Gis As Mixed Analysis); And Part Iv Use Of Software For Mixed Data Analysis (e.g., Qda Miner, Wordstat, Maxqda, Nvivo, Spss). The Audience For This Book Includes (a) Researchers, Evaluators, And Practitioners Who Conduct A Variety Of Research Projects And Who Are Interested In Using Innovative Analyses That Will Allow Them To Extract More From Their Data; (b) Academics, Including Faculty Who Would Use This Book In Their Scholarship, As Well As In Their Graduate-level Courses, And Graduate Students Who Need Access To A Comprehensive Set Of Mixed Analysis Tools For Their Dissertations/theses And Other Research Assignments And Projects; And (c) Computer-assisted Data Analysis Software Developers Who Are Seeking Additional Mixed Analyses To Include Within Their Software Programs.