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	Qualitative psychological research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Qualitative research is sometimes said to have as its goal the understanding of the sample studied, rather than generalizing from the sample to the population.
		Qualitative analysis, however, is at the very least still descriptive research, and relevant quantitative psychometric concerns such as its reliability and validity are critical to its utility.
		In particular, qualitative methods are widely used as exploratory methods; the results of qualitative analysis are used to design quantitative research which tests null hypotheses derived from the qualitative observations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qualitative_psychological_research (1544 words)

	Qualitative research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the social sciences, qualitative research is often a broad term that describes research that focuses on how individuals and groups view and understand the world and construct meaning out of their experiences.
		In the social sciences, qualitative research is a broad term that describes research that focuses on how individuals and groups view and understand the world and construct meaning out of their experiences.
		Qualitative research methods are sometimes used together with quantitative research methods to gain deeper understanding of the causes of social phenomena, or to help generate questions for further research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qualitative_method (1340 words)

	Qualitative Analysis
		In simplest terms, qualitative analysis involves the determination of what elements are present in the portion of the sample irradiated by the electron beam.
		Qualitative analysis has three principal applications: phase identification, identification of elements present for quantitative analysis, and determining proper background offsets for quantitative analysis by WDS.
		The principal limitation of EDXA as a qualitative tool lies in detecting elements present at trace levels, which produce weak intensities that are commonly very difficult to resolve from the background x-radiation (the "Bremmstrählung", which is white x-radiation produced by the deceleration of electrons of the primary beam).
	research.ou.edu /microprobe/Qual.html (573 words)

	AcademicDB - Qualitative Risk Analysis
		Qualitative Risk Analysis Qualitative risk analysis is the process of performing a qualitative analysis of identified risks.
		Qualitative risk analysis is one way of determining the importance of addressing specific risks and guides risk response measures.
		Qualitative risk Analysis requires that the probability and impact of the risks be estimated using qualitative analysis methods and tools.
	www.academicdb.com /qualitative_risk_analysis_15122 (247 words)

	Lecture 11 Qualitative Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Qualitative analysis is any technique used to analyze data in a way other than the use of numbers (quantitative).
		Content analysis can be thought of as a research type, a technique for gathering data, and an analytical tool for analyzing data, all in one.
		Qualitative measures: A brief discussion of issues of qualitative research.
	www.eng.cu.edu.eg /hgabr/arch570/lecture11/lec11qualit.htm (669 words)

	use of qualitative analysis in pricing - strategic pricing article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Finally, qualitative analysis may be used for a specific pricing situation when little is known about an area of interest.
		Qualitative analysis in pricing must be rigorous and free of bias.
		In-depth qualitative analysis is used in such circumstances because it alone can provide the information to construct a valid pricing strategy.
	www.harrisonpricing.com /articles/qualitative_analysis_hades.html (1658 words)

	Kelle: Theory Building in Qualitative Research
		Reservations of qualitative researchers against computer-aided methods of data analysis at least partly reflected the distance of these scholars from the mainstream methodology of quantitative survey and experimental research where, during the 1960s and 1970s, the computer became an indespensible aid.
		Qualitative research usually means the collection and analysis of unstructured textual material in order to develop concepts, categories, hypotheses, theories (or mere descriptions of social life worlds).
		Consequently, the theoretical preconceptions which qualitative researchers (whether they apply 'grounded theory' methodology or not) normally use to structure the data material (and which play a role in their abductive inferences) are quite different from those theoretical concepts, that the H-D approach expects us to formulate prior to data collection and data analysis.
	www.socresonline.org.uk /2/2/1.html (8633 words)

	Qualitative Data Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition to covering the key conceptual issues, a computer package for qualitative analysis is taught, as are further methods for data analysis.
		The course combines lectures and practical work, and is assessed by a qualitative analysis assignment.
		Pattern analysis: Q methodology, a technique that sits on the boundary between qualitative and quantitative analysis (e.g.
	www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk /teaching/MSc_QualDataAnalysis.htm (320 words)

	FQS 1(2) Philipp Mayring: Qualitative Content Analysis
		The main idea of the procedure of analysis is thereby, to preserve the advantages of quantitative content analysis as developed within communication science and to transfer and further develop them to qualitative-interpretative steps of analysis.
		Qualitative content analysis defines itself within this framework as an approach of empirical, methodological controlled analysis of texts within their context of communication, following content analytical rules and step by step models, without rash quantification.
		But within the framework of qualitative approaches it would be of central interest, to develop the aspects of interpretation, the categories, as near as possible to the material, to formulate them in terms of the material.
	www.qualitative-research.net /fqs-texte/2-00/2-00mayring-e.htm (2440 words)

	Using the Concept System for Qualitative Analysis
		And, The Concept System is the only qualitative analysis tool that enables you to map your results in the form of a concept map and produce pattern matches that show the degree of consensus among coders.
		Qualitative analysis is a large methodological field, and no single tool can possibly accomplish all possible qualitative analyses.
		The heart of the analysis is the sorting or classifying of the statements into piles of similar ones.
	www.conceptsystems.com /kb/00000256.cfm (1288 words)

	SAGE Publications - Qualitative Data Analysis
		Qualitative researchers have, with this new edition, a revised and expanded version of their Bible.
		Its virtues are many: guidelines for reducing and displaying qualitative data; how to build a grounded, conceptual framework; advice on sampling and coding strategies; how to do within and cross-case designs and matrix displays; a thorough review of the ethical issues in qualitative analysis; and strategies for writing and presenting the final report.
		The growth of computer use in qualitative analysis is reflected throughout this volume, which also includes an extensive appendix on criteria useful for choosing among the currently available analysis packages.
	www.sagepub.com /book.aspx?pid=2678 (777 words)

	Qualitative Analysis by ORC Macro
		Unlike the statistical formulas and countable, predefined measurements that define quantitative methods, qualitative analysis is all about sifting and sorting data, perceptions, and opinions.
		Building analysis from the ground up, we follow explicit procedures to ensure that our information is complete, to classify data, and to prepare a solid description of what we found out about each person, group, or place that we are examining.
		Our analysis helped shape a new FDA advisory stating which fish are most likely to contain hazardous levels of mercury for children and women of childbearing age.
	www.orcmacro.com /Survey/Data/qualitative.aspx (494 words)

	Learning from Qualitative Data Analysis
		This iterative process of analysis does require more thought, and take more time, than off-the-shelf quantitative analysis, but is more likely to lead to useful and defensible findings.
		Data display is a key element in M&H's qualitative methodology: "We have become convinced that better displays are a major avenue to valid qualitative analysis [and, according to Loftus, quantitative analysis].
		Rasch analysis helps qualitative researchers by: 1) aiding in the clear conceptualization and construction of unidimensional variables, 2) identifying useful rating scale categorizations, and 3) enabling qualitative results to be reduced (summarized) into simple metric forms for plotting and further analysis.
	www.rasch.org /rmt/rmt91a.htm (822 words)

	Qualitative Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Qualitative research focuses on subjective data that is not easily coded into numbers.
		Qualitative research tends to work with fewer subjects or respondents (cases) but analyses each case to a deeper level.
		It follows that qualitative analysis is a set of techniques specifically developed to analyze qualitative data like content analysis, text analysis, and conceptual analysis.
	www.asiamarketresearch.com /glossary/qualitative-research.htm (144 words)

	Arteology: Informative Analysis
		When selecting the method of analysis it is advisable to consider whether you can base your work on a theoretical model that is already known.
		However, if the analysis program is unable to produce graphics, or if you could not use a computer for the job at all, you perhaps can present the final results as diagrams made by hand or you can use a specific drawing program.
		For qualitative analysis such tools do not exist, and the assessment is mostly done by contemplating standard lists of certain critical questions, some of which are presented elsewhere under the titles Assessing the Outcome of Literature Study, Assessing Qualitative Observations, Assessing Theoretical Output and Assessing Practical Output.
	www.uiah.fi /projects/metodi/170.htm (2054 words)

	Coffey, Holbrook, & Atkinson: Qualitative Data Analysis
		On the other hand, the widespread influence of computer- assisted qualitative data analysis is promoting convergence on a uniform mode of data analysis and representation (often justified with reference to grounded theory).
		Important though qualitative research is in many fields of empirical sociology, it does not underpin the entire academic enterprise as it does for anthropology.
		It may be that at least some kind of coding is needed in most qualitative research, but it is also possible that coding is overemphasized, given the fact that a large part of the qualitative researcher's work consists of interpretation and a fine-grained hermeneutic analysis....
	www.socresonline.org.uk /1/1/4.html (7751 words)

	Software: Qualitative analysis
		It was originally designed to facilitate the analysis of therapeutic conversations where clinicians, teachers and research workers wanted to understand the ideas and structures underlying the "texts".
		Software for qualitative research and data analysis, facilitates the management and analysis of text based data such as transcripts of interviews, focus groups, field notes, diaries, meeting minutes, and other documents.
		Kwalitan is a support program for the analysis of qualitative data, such as the protocols of interviews and observations, or existing written material, such as articles from newspapers, annual reports of enterprises, ancient manuscripts, and so on.
	www.content-analysis.de /qualitative.html (502 words)

	QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF
		QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF This material was originally published in the Purdue Cytometry CD-ROM Series,volume 4
		However, since the method is exclusively qualitative, the analysis of fragmented DNA present in tubes T is the main interest of the assay.
		Preparation of DNA for agarose gel electrophoresis analysis depends on the DNA size of samples: generally from 2 to 7 days are required.
	www.cyto.purdue.edu /flowcyt/research/cytotech/apopto/data/chap4.htm (1471 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook: Books: Matthew B. Miles,A Michael Huberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is one of the only textbooks on qualitative analysis to give real guidance and procedures to follow, from organising your data to reporting and presenting them.
		The final section on choosing software to help with your qualitative analysis is also very helpful, although now slightly out of date as the book was published into 1994.
		Admitting that the most central difficulty in the use of qualitative data is that methods of analysis are not well formulated; this book provides each method of qualitative data analysis in detail by giving specific illustrations and in a clearly understandable manner by using an accessible language.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Qualitative-Data-Analysis-Expanded-Sourcebook/dp/0803955405 (982 words)

	Ilias Karasavvidis - Discourse Analysis - Qualitative Discourse Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics etc), discourse analysis is typically defined as the the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'.
		Discourse analysis usually involves the study of larger chunks of language and not only sentences or words.
		Traditionally, discourse analysis is not distinguished into qualitative and quantitative.
	www.ikaras.org /d_qualitative_analysis.php (265 words)

	Qualitative Analysis Group in Warsaw
		The Qualitative Analysis Group functions (as yet informally) within the Department of Computational Science.
		We are interested in the problems of qualitative analysis and simulation of physical systems, especially, though not exclusively, in the fields of mechanics and engineering.
		qualitative analysis of physical systems, especially mechanical, with emphasis on hybrid approaches integrating qualitative, model-based, quantitative, diagrammatic and logical (rule-based) analysis, simulation and reasoning;
	www.ippt.gov.pl /~zkulpa/quaphys/QAGroup.html (430 words)

	Text Analysis Info - QDA software
		Word analysis: Counting of single words, analysis with word lists ("dictionaries"), differentiation of speakers "Speaker codes" allow to analyse parts of texts produced by different speakers (or answers to different questions).
		The employed algorithm for map analysis is based on Carley's approach to coding texts as cognitive maps and Danowski's approach for proximity analysis.
		Since then The Ethnograph has continued to be developed by qualitative data analysts for qualitative data analysts such as social scientists, historians, literary critics, health researchers, business and market analysts, legal researchers and others.
	www.textanalysis.info /qualitative.htm (2944 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Financial Glossary
		An analysis of the qualities of a company that cannot be measured concretely, such as management quality or employee morale.
		Combined with more subjective or qualitative considerations (such as management effectiveness), quantitative analysis can enhance investment decisions and portfolios.
		An analysis of the mathematically measurable figures of a company, such as the value of assets or projected sales.
	www.bloomberg.com /analysis/glossary/bfglosq.htm (1031 words)

	Amazon.com: Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Software Sourcebook: Books: Eben Weitzman,Matthew B. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The authors make an impressive team: Weitzman is a professor of social and organizational psychology with an extensive computer background, and Miles is a social psychologist who is well-known in the field of qualitative research for co-authoring a popular book on qualitative data analysis with A. Michael Huberman.
		Renata Tesch initiated the work of making it easier for us to survey the qualitative analysis methods--Weitzman & Miles carry on in the finest way." --Nyhedsbrer "Although the authors have a background in social and organizational psychology, their expertise on qualitative research methods is relevant to gerontologists.
		The authors give a history of the use of computers in qualitative data analysis, describe the different types of programs, and suggest future directions, but the bulk of this book is reviews of the software out there.
	www.amazon.com /Computer-Programs-Qualitative-Data-Analysis/dp/0803955375 (1475 words)

	Online QDA - List of resources
		Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines".
		Research based on qualitative methods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expanded exponentially in the past decades.
		As the degree of internet in qualitative research is global, the scope of the journal is international as well as interdisciplinary, capitalizing on the current popularity of qualitative research methods across all of the social and cultural disciplines.
	onlineqda.hud.ac.uk /resources.php (6400 words)

	Qualitative Analysis
		The qualitative approach as well as numerical one are important since they allow us to make conclusions regardless whether we know or not the solutions.
		First we looked for the equilibrium points and then, in conjunction with the existence and uniqueness theorem, we concluded that non-equilibrium solutions are either increasing or decreasing.
		We may use numerical techniques to have an idea about the solutions, but qualitative analysis may be able to answer some questions with a low cost and faster than the numerical technique will do.
	www.sosmath.com /diffeq/system/qualitative/qualitative.html (880 words)

	The Qualitative Report - Qualitative Research Web Sites
		Qualitative Methods and Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Qualitative Methods Internet Resources from Master of Community Health course at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
		Qualitative Research in Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
		Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research by Division of Social and Community Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA
	www.nova.edu /ssss/QR/web.html (604 words)

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