Book guides
People Analytics & Measurement
Study people and organizations with rigor.
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← All guides- The Bicycle Guide toA Practical Guide To Conjoint AnalysisA concise practical guide that explains how conjoint analysis infers the value consumers place on individual product attributes by analyzing their ratings of or choices among realistically described products.
- The Bicycle Guide toA Theory of Human MotivationHuman beings are perpetually wanting animals whose needs arrange themselves into a hierarchy of prepotency, so that satisfying lower needs releases the emergence of higher ones culminating in self-actualization.
- The Bicycle Guide toAnalytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better ResultsA practical, implementation-focused guide showing how any organization can build the capabilities to put analytics to work in everyday decisions and processes to make smarter decisions and get better results.
- The Bicycle Guide toApplied Multivariate Stats Social Sciences StevensA practical guide for social science students and researchers on how to apply, interpret, and critically evaluate common multivariate statistical techniques using SPSS and SAS, emphasizing conceptual understanding, assumption checking, and the generalizability of results.
- The Bicycle Guide toAssessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy)An edited European collection that demonstrates how empirical research methods can be rigorously applied to evaluate process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents without betraying the clinical complexity of the work.
- The Bicycle Guide toBasics Qualitative Research Grounded Theory Corbin StraussA practical guide that demystifies qualitative data analysis by providing a systematic set of techniques, grounded in Pragmatism and Interactionism, for transforming raw data into credible concepts, rich descriptions, and integrated theories.
- The Bicycle Guide toBayesian Multilevel Models for Repeated Measures dаta A Conceptual and Practical Introduction in RA practical, hands-on introduction to building, fitting, and interpreting Bayesian multilevel models for repeated measures data using the R package brms.
- The Bicycle Guide toBig Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and ThinkBig data—the ability to analyze vast quantities of information rather than samples—is transforming how we understand the world by privileging correlation over causation, scale over exactitude, and prediction over explanation.
- The Bicycle Guide toBig Data: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)A concise introduction to what big data is, how it is collected, stored, and analysed, and how it is transforming medicine, business, security, and society.
- The Bicycle Guide toCompensating Your Employees FairlyA practical guide to detecting, understanding, and correcting compensation discrimination and internal pay inequity using multiple regression and other statistical techniques.
- The Bicycle Guide toCompeting on Analytics: The New Science of WinningA field-defining guide arguing that organizations can build durable competitive advantage by systematically using data, statistical and quantitative analysis, and fact-based decision making as a distinctive strategic capability.
- The Bicycle Guide toData Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and ApplicationsA practical, hands-on guide that teaches the core concepts, techniques, and applications of data mining for business analytics using R, organized around a disciplined predictive-modeling process.
- The Bicycle Guide toFundamentals of Social ResearchA beginner-friendly guide that marries social research methods with statistics to teach students—especially social workers and development officers—how to conduct systematic, objective, and ethical inquiry.
- The Bicycle Guide toInvisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape BehaviorOther people invisibly shape almost every decision we make—what we buy, who we marry, how hard we try—and understanding how social influence works lets us harness it rather than be ruled by it.
- The Bicycle Guide toNetworks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected WorldAn interdisciplinary introduction to how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected through networks, and how individual behavior aggregates into population-wide outcomes via structure, incentives, and feedback effects.
- The Bicycle Guide toPredictive HR AnalyticsA hands-on guide that teaches HR and management-information professionals how to move beyond descriptive reporting to apply inferential, predictive statistical techniques to people-related data using SPSS (and R).
- The Bicycle Guide toReliability and Validity AssessmentA concise, foundational guide to how social scientists can assess whether their measures consistently capture (reliability) and accurately represent (validity) the abstract concepts they intend to measure.
- The Bicycle Guide toShow Me the Money: A Statistical Analysis of Commission-Based Compensation ModelsA mixed-methods statistical study of medical-device sales representatives finds that years of experience—not income or commission structure—is the strongest predictor of job satisfaction and retention.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for YouA guide to becoming a 'many-model thinker' who confronts the complexity of the modern world by applying ensembles of formal models to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.
- The Bicycle Guide toTransformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable AdvantageA practical framework showing how great organizations replace gut-feel people decisions with evidence-based change built on five disciplined principles that transform HR into a driver of sustainable strategic advantage.