Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference
ISBN-13:
9781108433358
Veröffentl:
2022
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2022
Seiten:
682
Autor:
Tasha Fairfield
Gewicht:
1157 g
Format:
244x170x37 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Devises a rigorous, intuitive methodology for case-study research, helping social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. Bayesianism provides guidance for rational reasoning under uncertainty, to make well-justified assessments about how strongly the information in hand supports one explanation over rivals.
Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction: Bayesian reasoning for qualitative research; 2. Fundamentals of Bayesian probability; Part II. Operationalizing Bayesian Reasoning in Qualitative Research: 3. Heuristic Bayesian reasoning; 4. Explicit Bayesian analysis; 5. Bayesian analysis with multiple cases; 6. Hypotheses and priors revisited; 7. Scrutinizing qualitative research; Part III. Bayesianism in Methodological Perspective: 8. Comparing logical Bayesianism to frequentism; 9. A unified framework for inference; Part IV. Bayesian Implications for Research Design: 10. Iterative research; 11. Test strength; 12. Case selection; 13. Worked examples; References; Contents; Index.
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