This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behav

Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logician

Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well

The history of science is articulated by moments of discovery. Yet, these 'moments' are not simple or isolated events in science. Just as a scientific discovery

Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible to