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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-04-01
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Series: | Methodological Innovations |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0007 |