1. Some Preliminaries
1.1 Defining Empirical Research
1.2 Conducting Empirical Research in a World Without Constraints
1.3 Conducting Empirical Research in a World With Constraints
1.4 (Revisiting) The Goals of Empirical Research
Part I. Designing Research
2. Questions, Theories, Observable Implications
2.1 Research Questions
2.2 Theories and their Observable Implications
2.3 Rival Explanations
3. Measurement
3.1 Measuring Concepts
3.2 Evaluating Measures and Measurement Methods
Part II. Collecting and Coding Data
4. Collecting Data
4.1 Identifying the Target Population
4.2 Locating and Generating Data
4.3 Deciding How Much Data to Collect
5. Coding Data
5.1 Developing Coding Schemes
5.2 Assigning a Value to Each Unit Under Study
Part III. Analyzing Data
6. Summarizing Data
6.1 Variables
6.2 An Introduction to Tools for Summarizing Variables
6.3 Displays
6.4 Descriptive Statistics
6.5 The Empirical Rule
7. Statistical Inference
7.1 The Logic of Statistical Inference
7.2 Confidence Intervals
7.3 Hypothesis Testing
7.4 Cross-Tabulation and Tests for Tables
8. Regression Analysis: The Basics
8.1 Lines and Linear Relationships
8.2 Ordinary Least Squares
8.3 Simple Linear Regression and Statistical Inference
9. Multiple Regression Analysis and Related Methods
9.1 Multiple Regression
9.2 Model Specification
9.3 Logistic Regression
Part IV. Communicating Data and Results
10. General Principles for Communicating and Visualizing Data and Results
10.1 General Principles for Communicating Data and Results
10.2 General Principles for Visualizing Data and Results
11. Strategies for Presenting Data and Statistical Results
11.1 Communicating Data
11.2 Presenting Results
12. Concluding Remarks
Appendix A Supplementary Materials
A.1 Additional Resources
A.2 Statistics Glossary
A.3 Statistical Notation
References
Index
