Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis

<p><em>The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis</em> is a groundbreaking edited book – the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters authored by internationally renowned scholars provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis.</p><p>Each chapter demonstrates how to conduct the analysis in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e.g. factor analysis of text multidimensional scaling of qualitative data); Part II Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data (e.g. qualitizing data mixed methodological discourse analysis); Part III Inherently Mixed Analysis Approaches (e.g. qualitative comparative analysis mixed methods social network analysis social media analytics as mixed analysis GIS as mixed analysis); and Part IV Use of Software for Mixed Data Analysis (e.g. QDA Miner WordStat MAXQDA NVivo SPSS).</p><p>The audience for this book includes (a) researchers evaluators and practitioners who conduct a variety of research projects and who are interested in using innovative analyses that will allow them to extract more from their data; (b) academics including faculty who would use this book in their scholarship as well as in their graduate-level courses and graduate students who need access to a comprehensive set of mixed analysis tools for their dissertations/theses and other research assignments and projects; and (c) computer-assisted data analysis software developers who are seeking additional mixed analyses to include within their software programs.</p><p>Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. </p>