Methodological approaches to community-based research / edited by Leonard A. Jason and David S. Glenwick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : an overview of methodological innovations in community research / Leonard A. Jason, David S. Glenwick -- Part I. Pluralism and mixed methods in community research -- ch. 2. Philosophical foundations of mixed methods research : implications for research practice / Jacob Kraemer Tebes -- ch. 3. Methodological pluralism : implications for consumers and producers of research / Chris Barker, Nancy Pistrang -- ch. 4. Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches : an example of mixed methods research / Rebecca Campbell ... [et al.] -- Part II. Methods involving grouping of data -- ch. 5. Clustering and its applications in community research / Allison B. Dymnicki, David B. Henry -- ch. 6. The person-oriented approach and community research / G. Anne Bogat ... [et al.] -- ch. 7. Meta-analysis in community-oriented research / Joseph A. Durlak, Molly Pachan -- Part III. Methods involving change over time -- ch. 8. Time-series analysis in community-oriented research / Bettina B. Hoeppner, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell -- ch. 9. Survival analysis in prevention and intervention programs / Christian M. Connell -- Part IV. Methods involving contextual factors -- ch. 10. Multilevel modeling : method and application for community-based research / Nathan R. Todd, Nicole E. Allen, Shabnam Javdani -- ch. 11. Epidemiologic approaches to community-based research / Leonard A. Jason, Nicole Porter, Alfred Rademaker -- ch. 12. Applying geographic information systems to community research / Cory M. Morton ... [et al.] -- ch. 13. Economic cost analysis for community-based interventions / Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Leonard A. Jason.