I believe this is an excellent textbook for methods at the Master’s level. The sample of methods and approaches is very good. In addition to treating the “ordinary” techniques like linear and logistic regression, the book also deals with multilevel analysis, panel data analysis, factor analysis, and structural equation model. This covers the quantitative methods that are relevant for today’s Master’s students.

The material is presented at an acceptable advanced level where the necessary formulas are presented, and at the same time explained in an accessible manner. The highlighting of how to perform an analysis combined with examples from Stata makes the material easy to access for the students. This is definitely a book that I would like to use in my teaching. –Per Arne Tufte