qualitative technique

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The interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed using qualitative techniques.
They also stress the importance of qualitative techniques in the preliminary phases of quantitative studies, especially in the definition of social variables such as class, gender, and age.
Whatever method is used for appraisals, to ensure that people's genuine needs are fully transcribed, the emphasis is on qualitative techniques of interviewing and listening to people.
This study is an example of how important subjective views, gathered using qualitative techniques may be quantified and subjected to statistical analysis.
Such qualitative techniques have the advantages of providing a wealth of information, and insights into aspects of system acceptance that could not be predicted prior to data collection.
Examples are discussed of narrative life history interviewing and qualitative observational techniques and of recent research endeavors integrating these qualitative techniques with quantitative data analyses.
However, many of the current consumer-based methodologies are founded upon qualitative techniques and require significant subjective interpretation to turn the data into product designs.
Using the appropriate scientific qualitative techniques, a variety of perceptions can be traced and confronted with each other.
Further work involving both quantitative and qualitative techniques is needed to explore who attends asthma clinics and why.
They especially emphasize methods for representing semantic information, and hybrid methodologies combining statistical, numerical, and quantitative with symbolic, logical, and qualitative techniques.
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