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Product Description The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit is the essential toolbox for your quantitative research needs. From survey research to multilevel modeling, the books provide clear, concise and digestible explanations of the key theories, methods and techniques relevant to quantitative research today. Curated and written by leading academics in the field, they offer practical, hands-on guidance on how to conduct your research project and make the most out of your findings, in turn giving you the confidence needed to succeed. About the Author Malcolm Williams is Professor and Codirector of the Cardiff Q-Step Centre for Quantitative Methods pedagogy. Until July 2014, he was the Director of the School of Social Sciences, at Cardiff, and prior to this Professor of Social Research Methodology at Plymouth University. He is the author/editor of nine books and over a hundred articles/chapters. His primary research interest has been around methodological and philosophical issues in social research, particularly objectivity, probability, causality, and representation. His most recent book Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Social Research was published by SAGE in 2017. His past empirical research has included the measurement of homeless populations (using capture-recapture) and the analysis of longitudinal census data to explore household formation/dissolution and counterurbanisation migration. In the last few years, his primary research interest has been in the pedagogy of quantitative methods. Richard D. Wiggins is an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, which is part of the newly formed UCL Social Research Institute. He joined the Institute of Education, University of London as Chair of Quantitative Social Science in 2007 and Head of the Department Quantitative Social Science. From 2011 until 2013 he was Director of Methodology in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, thereafter