Research Methods in Physical Activity, Eighth Edition, systematically guides students
through the research process, introducing research methods, tools, and analysis techniques …

Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a statistical technique that first and foremost has
become known through the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002). This book will …

Understanding the efficacy and relative effectiveness of a brief alcohol intervention (BAI)
relies on obtaining a credible intervention effect estimate. Outcomes in BAI trials are often …

This research delves into the impact of public education investment and advanced human
capital structure on the innovation outputs at various processes of China's regional …

Political interest is a key for the survival and development of democracies. Therefore, it is
important to establish when political interest develops. We examined changes in political …

Person‐oriented approaches to social and behavioral developmental sciences proceed
from the fact that aggregate‐level descriptions of constancy and change usually fail to …

This paper discusses a general framework for the analysis of rating and preference data that
is rooted on a class of mixtures of discrete random variables. These models have been …

The belief that people are generally fair and trustworthy has generated plenty of scholarly
attention in recent decades, particularly in the Scandinavian countries, which are often …

Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data,
this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past …

The use of corpora in semantic research is a rapidly developing method. However, the
range of quantitative techniques employed in the field can make it difficult for the non …