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Questions tagged [qualitative]

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Survey: dismiss an answer based on quality of other answers?

I am having an issue that I can't find an answer to. In my research, I have a mixed qualitative/quantitative survey (roughly 30 participants). One of the participants answered 3 out of 5 qualitative questions. Of those three answers, the first is…
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How can reliability and validity of content analysis be quantified when there is only one person coding the data?

How can reliability and validity of content analysis be quantified when there is only one person coding the data?
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Qualitative data analysis for statisticians?

Occasionally in my professional work, I've run into the need to analyze qualitative data. Because of some assistance I've had from non-statistician colleagues, I've learned about techniques such as thematic analysis that I was never taught in my…
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How to compute Kendall tau for more than two variables

I am new to statistics. I decided to use Kendall tau correlation. I want to find correlations between every variable of the data set. (For example, if there are three variables in the data $x, y$ and $z$, then I need the correlations between…
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How to compare paired qualitative data?

I would like to compare two methods on qualitative and paired data. To summarize my study for you (it's for an internship), I have activity values ​​that were measured on 13 sites, for 12 species of bats (some species are not found on all…
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Standard Deviation in qualitative sample

Can there be a meaningful standard deviation for qualitative data?
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Reliability and reconciliation for multiple open-coders

I recognize this may be partly a question for qualitative researchers, but I'm not sure which Stack Exchange is theirs. The basic context is that we have a series of text excerpts from newspaper articles, and three different researchers conducted…
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Is it desireable to analyse questionnaire responses with standard methods of statistical analysis?

I'm a bit puzzled how to analyse self-report questionnaires (for example psychometric studies). For example, consider a standard Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression which comprises 21 items with numerical scores [0-4] for each item. For example, I…
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Labels for correlation coefficients

How could we attribute labels for correlation coefficients in order to facilitate reading the data specially for non-technical people or in qualitative analyses? For example: $\rho > 0.9$ - strongly correlated $\rho > 0.7$ - moderately…
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Comparing Percentages Between 2 Groups When Each Group's Total Percentage Exceeds 100

I am comparing the rate of specific Response Patterns A through L among students in Group 1 vs. Group 2 (rates for the first five patterns are exemplified in the table). These are response patterns that a research assistant and I coded from…
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Trying a multivariate analyses on time series (with R)

I got measures of one variable (that behaves as a time series) for different conditions (some quantitatives, but mostly are qualitatives). For example, this is a "fake" representative plot of this variable for 2 differents conditions…
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Correlation between quantitative and qualitative variables

I have a dataset composed by 5000 observations. Each observation contains the income per year of a person (from 50 to 50.000.000) and the fact of having a car (yes/no). I would like to check if a correlation exists between these two features. Which…
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Using qualitative data (numerical) for prediction

Let's try and look at this with an example before I get into my questions. Let's say you're trying to predict the number of Oscars a movie will win. With qualitative data we can clean and plug in a bunch of data (e.g. box office opening, rotten…
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for which variables in panel data i should do stationary test?

i have a panel data and my dependent variable was stationary according to ADF test.now i dont know should i test it for my independent variables too or not? btw does it make sense to take stationary tests from qualitative variables?
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Plot of two ordinal variables?

It is common to represent various (ordinal, social) attributes on a pair of axes as in the examples below. In general, what is this sort of graph/representation called? It is, perhaps, useful to think in these terms and we can recognise the…
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