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    <title>Key concepts in sport and exercise research methods</title>
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    <namePart>Atkinson, Michael.</namePart>
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    <publisher>SAGE</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>x, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Academic journals -- Analytic epidemiology -- Applied vs. pure research -- Archival research -- Causality -- Critical theory -- Descriptive statistics -- Discourse analysis -- Distributions -- Epistemology -- Ethnography -- Evaluation research -- Evidence-based research and practice -- Experiments -- Grounded theory -- Hypotheses -- Inferential statistics -- Interdisciplinary research -- Interpretivism -- Interviewing -- Literature reviews -- Media analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Ontology -- Population and samples -- Positivism -- Quantitative vs. qualitative research -- Questionnaires -- Reliability -- Representation -- Research ethics -- Research proposals -- Research questions -- Theory -- Translation -- Triangulation -- Unobtrusive methods -- Validity -- Variables -- Visual methods.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Michael Atkinson.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sports</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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    <topic>Exercise</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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      <title>SAGE key concepts</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781848607293 (pbk.)</identifier>
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