Quasi-Experimental and correlational designs: Methods for the real world when random assignment isn’t feasible

The SAGE Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 265-286

  Mark, Melvin M ^a   Reichardt, Charles S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976190.n12     Document Type: Chapter

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