Quantitative research seeks to collect numerical data that can be transformed into usable statistics. It relies on measurable data to formulate facts and uncover patterns in research. By employing statistical methods to analyze the data, it provides a broad overview that can be generalized to larger...
While the analytical relevance of this practice has been critiqued and while many national statistics agencies have abandoned the concept of a household head altogether, researchers in South Africa often use the characteristics of the household head in order to classify households. In particular, ...
This type of data is found in your everyday work and in statistics all over the web. Here are some examples of qualitative data in descriptions, research, work, and statistics. Qualitative data in descriptions Analysis of qualitative data requires descriptive context in order to support its ...
In statistics, qualitative data is the same as categorical data. This is because this information can be easily categorized based on properties or certain characteristics. The main feature is that qualitative data does not come as numbers with mathematical meaning, but rather as words. In some ...
However, the numbers assigned here (1, 2, 3, 4) don’t have mathematical meaning in the traditional sense. For example, assigning 1 to males and 2 to females doesn’t imply that males are “greater” than females. Not can they be added, divided or multiplied together. Rather, the cate...
To analyze qualitative data, the researcher seeks meaning from all of the data that is available. The data may be categorized and sorted into patterns (i.e., pattern or thematic analyses) as the primary basis for organizing and reporting the study findings (e.g., activities in the home; ...
According to Frankl (1985), free choice and making suffering meaningful through values might elevate the individual’s meaning of life, assist in overcoming difficulties, and improve mental wellbeing. Thus, it is possible that striving for social change has charged the life of the participants in...
In contrast, qualitative data must be categorized through descriptive parameters, such as traits or physical characteristics, before it can be statistically examined for patterns or meaning. While quantitative data analysis can easily be performed by citizen analysts using software tools like spreadsheets,...
meaning, attitude and understanding, to focus on the value of the world, pay attention to the emotional and creative wisdom and sense of life. All of these can not be expressed in the form of data in mathematical language, but can only be achieved through descriptive and interpretive ...
\langle {C}\rangle \!\rangle _{_{\! }} \gamma, intuitively meaning: “The coalition C has a collective strategy to guarantee the satisfaction of the objective \gamma on every play enabled by that strategy.” Formally, {\textsf {ATL}}^{*} is a multi-agent extension of the branching...