Research Methods: Data Handling and Analysis

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Data expressed in terms of quantity or amount, information can be written and measured with numbers.
Quantitative
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Data using descriptive language, e.g questionnaires or interviews.
Qualitative
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Statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies.
Meta-analysis
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Observations, questionnaires, content analysis are examples of collecting this type of data.
Primary
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This type of data has already been collected by someone else but is used by someone else for further research.
Secondary
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The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding up the scores and then dividing the total.
Mean
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The middle of a set of numbers.
Median
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The most frequent in a set of numbers.
Mode
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Subtract the lowest score from the highest score and add 1.
Range
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Scores around the mean of a distribution measuring how much a set of scores is dispersed around an average measure of variability.
Standard Deviation
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Data using descriptive language, e.g questionnaires or interviews.

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Statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies.

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Observations, questionnaires, content analysis are examples of collecting this type of data.

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This type of data has already been collected by someone else but is used by someone else for further research.

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