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Developed out of a one-semester course on experimental research methods in the social sciences, this work by Gerber (political science, Yale U.) and Green (political science, Columbia U.) introduces the principles of social sciences experimentation in the field and illustrates the principles with examples drawn from criminology, economics, education, political science, social psychology, and sociology. End-of-chapter exercises encourage thinking about problems of research design and analysis of data. The authors assume knowledge of introductory statistical inference and regression. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)