Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen?

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen? devarda alloy is reducing the nitrate to ammonium

15 February 2021 8,838 3 View

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively?

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively? The digital transformation is making most of the organizations to go online and start doing business through...

09 February 2021 4,430 6 View

Observation instrument for classroom activity in consecutive interpreting?

Hello everybody My research involves an intervention where an instructor delivers a training course to students. My role as a researcher is to write down observations. Do you have any idea about...

03 February 2021 6,853 3 View

Can anyone help to convert ODK XLS into XML?

We want to conduct a verbal autopsy using WHO adult VA updated tools in ODK. The current version of WHO adult verbal autopsy tools is v1.5.3. I have successfully converted VA ODK-XLS v1.4 into XML...

03 February 2021 844 2 View

What is the best way to encode categorical variables in datasets with many features and avoid increasing dimensionality of the dataset?

I am working with a large dataset that has many categorical variables with many classes in each variable. I want to encode the categorical variables without increasing the dimensionality of the...

31 January 2021 6,986 3 View

May I know how to determine the acceptable intakes for new types of nitrosamine discovered in drug?

Currently only common nitrosaminse like NDMA and NDEA have mentioned the acceptable daily intake. Based on EMA guidance, should refer to ICH M7 chapter 7.5 guideline. I have read but could not...

20 January 2021 522 1 View

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies?

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies? I want to decide the number of respondent in two countries which I am considering for my study. One of...

09 December 2020 1,661 11 View

Which MATLAB/PYTHON solver is efficient to solve nondifferentiable nonlinear subproblem?

02 December 2020 2,381 3 View

What is the best solver in OpenFOAM to study melt-water interaction?

During a severe accident in a nuclear reactor an energetic molten fuel/coolant interaction could happen, where a multiphase flow of a steam-water mixture in a region which contain drops of a...

29 November 2020 8,376 2 View

Is there an open source free software for text mining and sentiment analysis?

I am looking for a free software for text mining and sentiment analysis for my research on customer review mining (it involves calculating polarity of attributes,opinion oriented information...

25 February 2021 1,920 6 View

How do I organize items to repeated surveys for quantitative and qualitative analysis?

Hello fellow researchers! Newbie here :) I created a survey with open-ended and Likert-type questions. The survey was administered nine times to the same people using google forms. I plan to...

01 January 2021 3,921 3 View

What is the appropriate number of themes in a 2-part study when conducting a thematic analysis?

We have carried out in-depth interviews of participants during and after the COVID-19 lockdown in India. We are using thematic analysis to understand people's experiences. At the moment, we are...

12 December 2020 8,580 11 View

Published paper analyzed in NVivo?

Hello Everyone: Can anyone suggest me any published paper analyzed using NVivo data analysis software? Thanks in advance.

12 November 2020 7,775 5 View

Can I use both NVIVO and Paper together for maximum understanding of my own data?

Dear geniuses in qualitative research, I am currently on coding and categorising phase of my data. I feel like I should use both NVIVO and paper for the same. I started with 3 big chart papers...

28 October 2020 6,706 3 View

Does anyone know how I can see which nodes I chose for a specific file in NVIVO?

Hello! Does anyone know how I can see which nodes I chose for a specific file in NVIVO? I appreciate your answers, Katharina

02 October 2020 110 3 View

NVIVO Software download free?

Can anyone guide me on whether I can download any free version of NVIVO software for qualitative research?

22 July 2020 3,554 4 View

Which software, other than NVivo, do you use to code and perform thematic analysis of your interviews?

We undergone so much problems with NVivo (activation, compatibility PC vs MAC) and it is so much expensive.

07 July 2020 8,222 10 View

How we analyse the audio based interview data using R software?

I conducted a qualitative research and recorded the interview as audio clips for each respondent. How we analyse the audio based data using R software? This is quite common in NVIVO and Atlas.ti....

02 June 2020 9,944 6 View

What are the best ways to visualize codes with demographics information using NVIVO 12 Software?

The data coding process using NVIVO 12 software is relatively straightforward, but I'm having difficulty using the hierarchy charts to visualize the information in terms of demographics (e.g.,...

08 May 2020 4,155 3 View