In the observational study of social systems, the major conceptual innovation of the last century was General Systems Theory. Yet the General Systems Theory conceptions of interacting social systems were doomed to remain at the prescientific level of metaphor until a set of statistical techniques were developed and applied.
This book emphasizes digital means to record and code such behavior; while observational methods do not require them, they work better with them.
An exploration of the interrelated fields of design of experiments and sequential analysis with emphasis on the nature of theoretical statistics and how this relates to the philosophy and practice of statistics.
This book provides a straightforward introduction to scientific methods for observing social behavior.
Sequential analysis refers to the body of statistical theory and methods where the sample size may depend in a random manner on the accumulating data.
Analyzing Interaction provides the practical underpinnings needed to carry out the sorts of sequential analyses suggested by the earlier book.
This book presents an integrated methodology for sequential experimentation in clinical trials.