Contrasting Variable-Analytic and Case-Based Approaches to the Analysis of Survey Datasets: Exploring How Achievement Varies by Ability across Configurations of Social Class and Sex

The context for this paper is the ongoing debate concerning the relative merits, for the analysis of quantitative data, of, on the one hand, variable-analytic correlational methods, and, on the other, the case-based set theoretic methods developed by Charles Ragin. While correlational approaches, ba...

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Main Authors: Barry Cooper, Judith Glaesser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:Methodological Innovations
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0007