Business development on the Web

Statistics

OVERVIEW

Table and links prepared by Dr. Baldwin at California State University that explains the multiple paradigms of the social and behavioural sciences.

QUALITATIVE METHODS

Education research site maintained by McGraw Hill, that also provides links to qualitative and quantitative methods sites.

General qualitative research page maintained by Dr. Bobbi A. Kerlin. Offering easy to navigate links to discussions of information gathering, research paradigms and interpreting results. Well worth a visit.

Grounded Theory Memo Page maintained by Chuck B. von Manteuffel. This page provides a helpful introduction to GTM, references for further reading and links to other GTM sites.

List of qualitative research links maintained by Ron Chenail at Nova Southeastern University.

QSR's home page (providers of the popular Nudist and NVivo analysis packages). Includes product information, support and frequently asked questions.

Social construction insights provided by Professor Kenneth Gergen's website.

STATISTICS

Basic Statistic course maintained by Professor Hossein Arsham's. This provides a helpful introduction to the main statistical techniques and a helpful review of statistical tools available on the web.

Bill Tochim's Centre for Social Research Methods. Provides helpful guidance on research techniques. The tool for selecting what statistical technique should be employed is especially helpful.

Bureau of Labour Statistics (US Department of Labor) provides an overview of economic performance and statistics on inflation, spending, employment, earnings, health and safety, productivity and international comparisons.

Data Archive contains the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data.

Electronic statistics text book provided free by StatSoft.

Frequently asked question page on statistics maintained by the University of Texas.

Introductory statistics page maintained by John Bell and Associates.

Minitab's home page (providers of the Minitab statistical package). Includes support and updates.

Question Bank, social surveys online. This an excellent resource that contains the questionnaires of major UK social surveys. The site describes itself as containing "full questionnaires texts and layouts. It reproduces instruments used to conduct important, large-scale, quantitative social surveys in the United Kingdom. The site is the most accessible source of questionnaires in the UK and contains material that exists elsewhere only in paper form which may be hard to find. It also contains methodological commentary and other technical material relating to survey questions and survey measurement."

Raynald's SPSS tools is dedicated to helping users of this popular statistics package. It contains "more than 350 sample syntax, macros and scripts as well as FAQs, Tips, Tutorials and a Newbie's Corner.

SAS site maintained by Assistant Professor Oliver Schabenberger's site at Viginia Polytechnic Institute.

SPSS's home page (providers of the SPSS statistical package). Includes support and updates.

Statlib. A site maintained by the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University that distributes statistical software, data sheets and information.