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Qualitative Data Analysis

2010
Book abstract: The growing emphasis on evidence-based practice means that there is an increasing need for practitioners to have at least a basic understanding of research, be aware of methodological pitfalls and to be updated on new methods. This book provides a practical, user-friendly guide to social science research methods for professionals who ...
Smith, Karen, Davies, Joanne
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Qualitative Data in DEA

2005
In many real world applications involving performance measurement, it is necessary to deal with qualitative data factors. This chapter discusses the modeling of such factors within the DEA structure.
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The analysis of structured qualitative data

Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, 1999
The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the methodological contribution given by Italian researchers in introducing a priori information into multidimensional data analysis techniques, paying special attention to categorical variables. The basic method is Non-Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis, which enables the analysis of a contingency table
LAURO C., BALBI, SIMONA
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Qualitative data collection with children

Applied Nursing Research, 2012
Qualitative researchers have clear methods to guide them in data collection with adult participants, but little is known about effective interview techniques with children. The findings from this methodological study on qualitative interviews with children indicate that children are able to articulate their experiences in interviews.
Regena, Spratling, Sallie, Coke, Ptlene, Minick   +2 more
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Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data

Advances in Nursing Science, 1997
Secondary analysis of qualitative data is a valid mode of clinical inquiry. However, there is limited information available on its use in nursing. This article describes the use of secondary analysis for a study of family caregivers of relatives with dementia.
V, Szabo, V R, Strang
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THE QUALITATIVE TREATMENT OF SPATIAL DATA

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2007
This paper aims at an efficient treatment of spatial data using qualitative representation. We propose a new framework called PLCA, which provides a symbolic representation for the figure in a two-dimensional plane, focusing on the connections between regions. It is based on four simple objects: points(P), lines(L), circuits(C) and areas(A).
Kazuko Takahashi, Takao Sumitomo
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Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data

Psychometrika, 1981
This paper presents an overview of an approach to the quantitative analysis of qualitative data with theoretical and methodological explanations of the two cornerstones of the approach, Alternating Least Squares and Optimal Scaling. Using these two principles, my colleagues and I have extended a variety of analysis procedures originally proposed for ...
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Qualitative Cleaning of Uncertain Data

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016
We propose a new view on data cleaning: Not data itself but the degrees of uncertainty attributed to data are dirty. Applying possibility theory, tuples are assigned degrees of possibility with which they occur, and constraints are assigned degrees of certainty that say to which tuples they apply.
Henning Köhler, Sebastian Link
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How to measure qualitative data

2015 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) held jointly with 2015 5th World Conference on Soft Computing (WConSC), 2015
To overcome some problems with deep understanding of fuzzy values, certain learning finite automaton was put into a fuzzy environment. Previously such a device has been studied in the probabilistic environment, where the classic technique of standard Markov chains was applicable.
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Concepts in the Analysis of Qualitative Data *

The Sociological Review, 1979
The question arises: do problems of concept-formation in such research differ from those in quantitative social research? It has often been maintained that this is so. While in quantitative social research concepts tend to be pre-formed and fixed (it is argued), in qualitative research they tend to be fluid and emergent. Herbert Blumer’s classic paper,
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