Quantitative Methods for Historians
A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics
By Konrad H. Jarausch, Kenneth A. Hardy
266 pp., 6 x 9
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4309-3
Published: March 1991 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2147-0
Published: August 2016 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8119-9
Published: August 2016
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Integrating the use of the statistical packages SAS and SPSS with the quantitative method, the authors discuss techniques for defining a problem, proceed to the building of a data set and the use of statistical methods, and conclude with the interpretation of results. The data set section concentrates on the basics of formalized research, discussing the coding process and the more complicated problems of data transformation and linkage. The statistical parts systematically build upon traditional fundamentals and introduce new analytical techniques for qualitative variables.
Intended as a working introduction to quantitative methods, this guide also provides additional information on advanced statistical techniques and discusses questions of historical computing, reflecting critically on the proper role of quantitative methods.
About the Authors
Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Kenneth A. Hardy is former director of the Statistical Laboratory of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Reviews
"Quantitative historians have been waiting for a long time for a book such as this. It assumes no previous knowledge of mathematics or computing, but building step by step, achieves a remarkable degree of methodological sophistication while still remaining accessible to the non-specialist. Other strengths include its attempted dialogue with more traditional scholars and its balance between American and European fields of research."--Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
"Both a how-to manual for scholars venturing into quantitative history and a survey of the subfield of quantitative history in the U.S. and Europe up to about 1990."--Choice