Jacques Tacq is Assistant Professor of Methodology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium. He is also Visiting Professor at the Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex.

PART ONE: FROM THEORY TO METHODOLOGY
Types of Research Problems and Research Situations
A Classification of Classical Techniques of Multivariate Analysis
The Analysis Technique as the Mirror of the Research Problem
PART TWO: FROM METHODOLOGY TO ANALYSIS
The Experimental Design
The Effect of Humour on Financial Concession
Multiple Regression Analysis
The Causes of Childlessness
Partial Correlation and Path Analysis
The Causal Influence of Christian Beliefs on Anti-Semitism
Analysis of Variance and Covariance
The Effect of Interaction of Monetary Rewards and Task Interest on Motivation
Two-Group Discriminant Analysis
Poor and Rich Neighbourhoods
Factor Analysis
The Investigation of Marital Adjustment
Canonical Correlation Analysis
The Study of Economic Inequality and Political Instability
Techniques with Multiple Dependent Variables