Methods and Data Analysis for Cross-Cultural Research (Culture and Psychology, Series Number 116)

This book gives an up-to-date overview of methodological and data-analytical issues of cross-cultural studies. Written by leading experts in the field, it presents the most important tools for doing cross-cultural research and outlines design considerations, methods, and analytical techniques that can improve ecological validity and help researchers to avoid pitfalls in cross-cultural psychology. By focusing on the relevant research questions that can be tackled with particular methods, it provides practical guidance on how to translate conceptual questions into decisions on study design and statistical techniques. Featuring examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality, health, and intercultural communication and management, and illustrating key techniques in feature boxes, this concise and accessible guide is essential reading for researchers, graduate students, and professionals who work with culture-comparative data. "Malicious hackers utilize the World Wide Web to share knowledge. Analyzing the online communication and behavior of these threat actors can help reduce the risk of attacks. This book shifts attention from the defender environment to the attacker environment, offering a new security paradigm of 'proactive cyber threat intelligence' that allows defenders of computer networks to gain a better understanding of their adversaries by analyzing assets, capabilities, and interest of malicious hackers. The authors propose models, techniques, and frameworks based on threat intelligence mined from the heart of the underground cyber world: the malicious hacker communities. They provide insights into the hackers themselves and the groups they form dynamically in the act of exchanging ideas and techniques, buying or selling malware, and exploits. The book covers both methodology-a hybridization of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and social network analysis methods-and the resulting conclusions, detailing how a deep understanding of malicious hacker communities can be the key to designing better attack prediction systems"-- Provided by publisher This is an integrated introduction to methods, design, and data analysis tailored to cross-cultural research. With examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality, health, and management, this guide presents key methodological and statistical tools and focuses on the research questions that can be tackled with particular techniques.