-- Quantitative data-collection methods: indexes and scales -- Sampling in the quantitative paradigm -- The pilot

systems -- Audit sampling and other relevant testing methods -- Internal controls -- Substantive

-- Basic probability -- Probability distributions -- Introduction to sampling distributions -- Confidence

Inferential Statistics, the Sampling Distribution, and Estimation. -- 7. Hypothesis Testing I: The One

-- Secondary information -- Qualitative research -- Experimental research -- Survey research -- Sampling

-- Ch. 4. Social Management -- Ch. 5. Composite Measures -- Ch. 6. Sampling -- Ch. 7. Social Experiments

explore the conceptual foundations are followed by chapters on measurement, statistics, sampling, surveys

analysis -- Phenomenology -- Additional approaches : historical research and action research -- Sampling

-- Experiments -- Statistics in research -- Sampling methods -- The challenge of the future.

- Generalisation and Sampling -- 8. Inductive Reasoning II - Forecasting -- 9. Inductive Reasoning III - Influence

: Introduction -- 10. Sampling distributions -- 11. Estimation: Describing a single population -- 12. Estimation

, including essential concepts of probability and random sampling, and gradually progresses to advanced