Sociological Methodology (SM) is the only American Sociological Association periodical publication devoted entirely to research methods. It is a compendium of new and sometimes controversial advances ...

Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out. Novice data scientists sometimes have ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Oct., 2005), pp. 497-510 (14 pages) Questions: Are ordinal data appropriately treated by multivariate methods in numerical ecology? If not, what are the ...