Panel on Quantitative
Methods
V.K. Narayanan
Stubbs Professor of Strategy &
Entrepreneurship
Associate Dean for Research
Le Bow College of Business
Doctoral Symposium
British Academy of Management
Liverpool, September 2013
Plan of the Session
1. Introduction
2. Panelists:
1. Yuksel Ekinci --Research Design
2. Celine Rojon – Choice of Analytical
Technique
3. VKN – Nature of the data analysis
4. Chris Chu – Challenges in Publication
3. Questions from the workshop participants
and responses from the panel
Mode of Inquiry
Discovery
Verification
1. Qualitative
Statistical
inference
2. Data mining
Demonstration via
case studies
studies
approaches
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General observations
1.
2.
3.
4.
A field and its customs change as members
learn about a specific method, invent new
ones and modify its existing ones
“Rules of thumb” are endemic to all fields
It is expected that you keep pace with the
field during your career
It is expected that when you read a paper,
you take pains to understand the method
even if the method was not known to you
before
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Research Design
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Choice of Analytical
Technique
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Nature of Data Analysis
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Challenges in Publication
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How do we infer?
B. Inferences
A. State of
Nature
C.
Research Design
Measurement
Data collection
“True” State of
Nature
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D.
Data
Mode of Measurement
1. Discrete
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
2. Nature of variables
3. Source of data
Related
Guttman
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Distribution Assumptions
Normal
Binomial
Poisson
Others
Transformations
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Alternative Regression
Procedures
Dependent variable
1. Binary
2. Sequential/ Guttman
3. Ordinal
4. Polytomous response
5. Event counts
Analysis
Logit/ Probit
Sequential l/p
Ordinal l/p
Multinomial l/p
Poisson regression