PO217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Qualitative Research, Multivariate Statistics, Statistical Inference
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3 different stages of qualitative data analysis (coding process) Theming: read through the text in search for general patterns. Record these themes in the form of memos. Mine the text for specific instances of each theme. Record these tags by highlighting specific passages. Review the test for accuracy in tagging. Descriptive statistics are used to describe characteristics of a population of a sample. Inferential statistics are used to generalize from a sample to the population of which the sample was drawn. Univariate statistics: describe (descriptive) of make inferences about (inferential) the values of a single variable. Bivariate statistics: describe (descriptive) or make inferences about (inferential) the relationship between the values of two variables. Multivariate statistics: describe (descriptive) or make inferences about (inferential) the relationship among the values of three or more variables. Data analysis begins by describing three characteristics of each variable under study: Frequency distribution: a list of the number of observations in each category of the variable.
