Research methods for postgraduates / edited by Tony Greenfield with Sue Greener.

Includes index.

First Steps. A View of Research / Tony Greenfield -- The Research Journey: Four Steps to Success / Tom Bourner, Sue Greener -- Managing Your Doctorate / Stan Taylor -- Documenting Your Work / Vivien Martin -- Ethics of Research / Tony Greenfield -- Plagiarism / Tony Greenfield -- Critically Reviewing Your Own Research / Tom Bourner, Juliet Millican -- Support. Research Proposals for Funding / Lowry McComb -- Who Can Help? / Shirley Coleman -- Information and Library Services / Claire Abson, Alastair Allan -- Research Methods for Advanced Web Searching / Alastair Allan -- Searching in Unfamiliar Fields / Tom Bourner, Sue Greener -- Sources of Population Statistics / Keith Dugmore -- An Introduction to Bibliometrics / Silvia Salini -- Choosing and Using Software for Statistics / Felix Grant -- Computer Support for Data Analysis / Clifford E Lunneborg -- Measurement and Experimentation. Instrumentation in Experimentation / Anand D Pandyan, Frederike van Wijck, Garth R Johnson -- Randomised Trials / Douglas G Altman -- Laboratory and Industrial Experiments / Tony Greenfield -- Experiments in Biological Sciences / Roger Payne -- Survey Research / David de Vaus -- Theory and Practice of Qualitative Research / Irena Ograjensek -- Kansei Engineering / Lluis Marco-Almagro -- Principles of Sampling / Peter Lynn -- Sampling in Human Studies / Peter Lynn -- Interviewing / Mark Hughes -- Measurement Error / Roland Caulcutt -- Data Analysis. Elementary Statistics / David J Hand -- Further Statistical Methods / David J Hand -- Spreadsheets: A Few Tips / Tony Greenfield, Andrea Benn -- Special Tools. The Value of Mathematical Models / Andrew Metcalfe -- Deterministic Models / Andrew Metcalfe -- Stochastic Models and Simulation / David Green, Andrew Metcalfe -- Optimisation / Aiden Fisher, Andrew Metcalfe -- Presentation. Writing the Thesis / Tony Greenfield -- The Logic of a Research Report / Tom Bourner, Linda Heath -- Presenting Data / Sue Greener -- Presenting and Sharing Your Research / Sue Greener -- Reporting Research / Iveta Simera, Douglas G Altman -- Social Media : How to Make It Work for You as a Post-Graduate / Suzanne Fraser-Martin, Catherine Fraser-Martin -- Next Steps. Protection and Exploitation of Intellectual Property / Patrick Andrews -- Career Opportunities / Sara Shinton