Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques

CHAPTER 6

Experimental Research

• Experimental Research
• Principles of Experiment
• Laboratory Experiments
• Experimental Designs
• Quasi-experimental Designs
• Action Research
• Validity and Reliability of Experiments and Quasi Experiments
• Sources of Invalidity of Experiments and Quasi-experiments
• Choice of Experimental Design
• Analysis Procedures Used in Experimental Design

Ronald Fisher

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination; he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

~ Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya, ca 1938

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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