Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AND DESCRIPTION
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Editing
Detects errors and omissions,
Corrects them when possible, and
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Editing (cont.)
3
Editing
Field Editing
• translation of ad hoc abbreviations and
symbols used during data collection
• validation of the field results.
Central Editing
4
Coding
Rules that guide the establishment of
category sets
• Appropriate to the research problem
and purpose
• Exhaustive
• Mutually exclusive
• Derived from one classification principle
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Content Analysis for Coding
Measures the semantic content of a
message
Researches the objective, systematic,
and quantitative description of the
content of a communication
• Syntactical unit
• Referential unit
• Propositional unit
6 • Thematic unit
Data Entry Options
Optical scanning
Voice recognition
Keyboard
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Data Entry Formats
Database with full screen editor
Spreadsheet
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Descriptive Statistics
Distribution Descriptors
• Location
• Spread
• Shape
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Descriptive Statistics
Distribution Descriptors
• Location
• Central Tendency
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
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Descriptive Statistics
Distribution Descriptors
• Spread
• Variance,
• Standard Deviation,
• Range,
• Interquartile Range
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Descriptive Statistics
Distribution Descriptors
• Shape
• Skewness
• Kurtosis
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