Keeping Pace with Methodological and Analytical Advances in Social Research

Abstract

In fact, methodological and analytical approaches to social research, which evolve constantly, render old methods less useful or even inappropriate in some cases.Therefore, keeping pace with relevant advances in quantitative methodology and analysis is critical to competing successfully for external funding and advancing knowledge about individual and social problems. [...] resources such as the Methodology Center at Penn State University provide online readings and tutorials on topics such as handling missing data, latent class analysis, and latent transition analysis, to name a few (http://methcenter.psu.edu).