Greener Sue - Research Methods for Postgraduates

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Greenfield, Tony, editor. | Greener, Sue, editor.

Title: Research methods for postgraduates / edited by Tony Greenfield with
Sue Greener.

Description: Third edition. | Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley &
Sons, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016011607 (print) | LCCN 2016016287 (ebook) | ISBN
9781118341469 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118763001 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118762998 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: ResearchMethodology.

Classification: LCC Q180.55.M4 R473 2016 (print) | LCC Q180.55.M4 (ebook) |
DDC 001.4/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011607

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ISBN: 9781118341469

Tony Greenfield was born in Chapeltown, South Yorkshire on 26 April 1931 to Geoffrey James Greenfield (19001978) and Hilda Aynsley (19031976).

Tony worked in a Cumbrian iron mine when he left Bedford School at the age of 17. He later worked in coal mines, a brass tube factory and a copper mine and studied mining engineering at Imperial College London. He received the diploma in journalism from the Regent Street Polytechnic, worked technical journals and on the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror before turning to technical journalism, in Sheffield, for 10 years. He was an active member of the Sheffield Junior Chamber of Commerce of which he was chairman of the Local Affairs, Business Affairs and Public Speaking committees and editor of The Hub, the chamber's monthly magazine. At the 1963 conference in Tel Aviv of Junior Chamber International, he was acknowledged as the editor of the best junior chamber magazine in the world.

He moved into the steel industry to write technical reports for Operations Research (OR) scientists. There he found satisfaction in solving production problems, and studied OR, mathematics, statistics and computing, leading to an external degree from University College London. He moved into steel research and became head of process computing and statistics. Much of his work was in design and analysis of experiments for which he received his PhD. He co-authored the first interactive statistics package to be written in Fortran. When the laboratories closed, he joined the medical faculty of University of Sheffield where he was statistician to a multi-centre study of cot death. He taught medical statistics to undergraduates, supported post-graduates and medical staff with consultancy. Tony moved to Belfast as professor of medical computing and statistics at Queen's University. Early retirement enabled him to work as a research consultant.

Tony's passion is to persuade all scientists and engineers to write, speak and present their work in language that other people understand well enough to use. And, like W.B. Yeats, he asks scientists to think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Like Isaac Asimov, he is on fire to explain and doesn't indulge in scholarly depth. He believes strongly that the economic fortune of Europe depends on the success in the world markets of our manufacturing industries.

Statisticians and statistical practitioners across Europe know that statistical methods have improved business and industrial peformance and can do so in the future, he says. Our national quality of life will be improved and secured if we can communicate the philosophy, as well as the methods, of statistics to engineers and others in the manufacturing and the service industries. Businessmen and engineers need to understand the benefits of applied probability and statistics; they need to understand how the methods are applied to their own work; they need to be fully converted to a frame of mind that will make them automatically question sources of variability in everything that they do and, without outside prompting, adopt the statistical approach.

He and others founded ENBIS to stimulate the application of statistical methods to economic and technical development and to business and industry across the whole of Europe. They have created a networking forum for the exchange of ideas between statistical practitioners. He has spread this passion by speaking in many cities across Europe from Tel Aviv, through Turin, Budapest, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Brussels, Sheffield, Newcastle and London.

Claire AbsonSheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UKAlastair AllanUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UKDouglas G. AltmanUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UKPatrick AndrewsHawkshaw Product Design Ltd, Crieff, Scotland, UKAndrea BennUniversity of Brighton, Brighton, UKTom BournerProfessor Emeritus, Brighton Business School, University of Brighton, UKRoland CaulcuttCaulcutt Associates, Salisbury, UKShirley ColemanISRU, School of Maths and Stats, Newcastle University, UKDavid de VausEmeritus Professor, FASSA, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaKeith DugmoreDemographic Decisions Ltd, London, UKAiden FisherUniversity of Adelaide, SA, AustraliaCatherine Fraser-MartinIndependent researcher, UKSuzanne Fraser-MartinIndependent researcher, UKFelix GrantLecturer and consultant, UKDavid GreenSchool of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, AustraliaSue GreenerBrighton Business School, University of Brighton, UKTony GreenfieldGreenfield Research, UK (retired)David J. HandImperial College, London, UKLinda HeathBrighton Business School, University of Brighton, UKMark HughesBrighton Business School, University of Brighton, UKGarth R. JohnsonNewcastle University, Newcastle, UKClifford E. LunneborgR Foundation, Boston, MA, USAPeter LynnInstitute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UKLluis Marco-AlmagroUniversitat Politecnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, SpainVivien MartinBrighton Business School, University of Brighton, UKLowry McCombDurham University, UKAndrew MetcalfeSchool of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, AustraliaJuliet MillicanCUPP, University of Brighton, UKIrena OgrajenekFaculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaAnand D. PandyanKeele University, Newcastle under Lyme, UKRoger PayneVSN International & Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UKSilvia SaliniUniversity of Milan, ItalySara ShintonShinton Consulting Ltd, Galashiels, UKIveta SimeraCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of OxfordStan TaylorSchool of Education, Durham University, Durham, UKFrederike van WijckGlasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Next page