A hypothesis starts out with a researcher having initial hunches with he/she attempting to answer a specific research question. Watson (n.d. cited Bryman and Bell, 2011) and Newby, 2010 defines a hypothesis…
Category: Research Methods
Drivers for analysis: factor or cluster?
Factor analysis and cluster analysis both function as powerful multivariate statistic tools that assist the researchers to explore the homogeneity and relationships among variables or subjects (Gorman and Primavera, 2012). Yet they…
Testing hypothesis: methods, confidence and significance.
A hypothesis, defined by Bryman and Bell (2011) is “an informed speculation, which is set up to be tested, about the possible relationship between two more variables”. It is frequently deduced from…
Research Designs: Choosing and Fine-tuning a Design for Your Study
Researchers can design a study to characterize a single instance of a phenomenon or to make an inference about a phenomenon in a population via a sample.
Trustworthiness in qualitative data collection and analysis
Criticisms of the lack of objectivity and generalizability are often associated with the qualitative method (Phillimore and Goodson, 2004). Extracting and analysing qualitative data is not a straightforward process due to the…
Research Design
Research design can be thought of as the structure of research — it is the “glue” that holds all of the elements in a research project together. We often describe a design…
Grounded theory as sub-set of qualitative analyses
Qualitative data analysis, which will be referred in the latter contexts as QDA, is defined by Lewins et al. (2010) as a range of processes “whereby we move from the qualitative data…
Presumptions and premises underpinning decisions during initial qualitative research design; philosophical considerations projected onto sample or vice versa? By Euodia Ong
Presumptions and premises underpinning decisions during initial qualitative research design; philosophical considerations projected onto sample or vice versa? By Euodia Ong Bryman (2012, p.46) defines research design as a “framework for the…
Implicit assumptions guide choice of qualitative method: how and why do numerous and distinct methods demonstrate a preference over others. By Vivian Yang
Implicit assumptions guide choice of qualitative method: how and why do numerous and distinct methods demonstrate a preference over others. By Vivian Yang Introduction Qualitative research, as opposed to the other paradigms…
Systematic Literature Review
Systematic reviews were originally developed in the field of medicine, through the Cochrane Collaboration (Hemsley-Brown and Oplatka, 2006). Its origin lies in the field of evidence-based health care, but it has also…