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The document discusses quantitative research methods for data analysis and collection, including organizing data by the research questions and hypotheses, and choosing appropriate statistical techniques like descriptive statistics to analyze the data and answer the study questions. It emphasizes planning data collection and analysis in advance, using statistics to serve the research rather than dominate it, and making sure the methods are clearly explained so another researcher could continue the work.

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Data Analysis and Data Collection

The document discusses quantitative research methods for data analysis and collection, including organizing data by the research questions and hypotheses, and choosing appropriate statistical techniques like descriptive statistics to analyze the data and answer the study questions. It emphasizes planning data collection and analysis in advance, using statistics to serve the research rather than dominate it, and making sure the methods are clearly explained so another researcher could continue the work.

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Nama : Dinda Salsabila Putri

NIM : 20178024
Assignment Week 7

Data Analysis and Data Collection

1. Quantitative Research
A. Data Analysis
The next portion of the study proposal discusses the data handling and
presentation methods and outlines the statistical techniques to be used. Group this data
into parts covering the organization of data and statistical procedures.

a. Data Organization
You explain your strategy for arranging and presenting the findings of the
investigation in this section. This is best achieved in reference to the research's
questions or theories. List each hypothesis and then indicate the data to answer each
one that will be collected. Planning and presentation of data in advance helps a
researcher to determine if the information obtained was important to the research
questions. In gathering irrelevant pieces of information, those who bypass this move
often find that they have wasted significant time and money. At this point, you can
list the bits of data that will be open to each participant and be able to envision how
the data will be structured and presented. Tables, statistics, and charts are important
resources for a whole set of data to be structured and summarized.

b. Statistical Procedures
The nature of the research defines, not vice versa, the statistical methodology to
be employed. In other words, the researcher determines which architecture would
allow the hypothesized relationships to be observed and then chooses the statistical
analysis that matches the questions raised and the nature of the data involved. What
data will be considered, what statistical methods will be used and why, and what
outcomes will be relevant in confirming the hypothesis should be clarified in this
section. Therefore, the rows in the table are identified as interval, ordinal, and
nominal. Columns 1 through 3 list the various purposes that descriptive statistics
may serve. The following are the most common uses of these statistics:
 To provide an index to describe a group or the difference between groups
(measures of central tendency)
 To provide an index to describe the variability of a group or differences in the
variability of groups (measures of variability)
 To locate an individual in a group (indexes of individual location)
 To provide an index to describe the relationship of variables within a population
(measures of correlation)
 To describe how a set is divided into subsets
 To describe the interaction among two or more variables in relation to a criterion
(measures of interaction)

It should be remembered that the statistical method is chosen on the basis


of its appropriateness for answering the study query. Using a complex method
when a straightforward one would do just as well, nothing is achieved. Statistics
are intended to serve, not to dominate, study. We also tell our students, "Imagine
you have received a great grant for doing your research, but you are run over by a
truck the very next day. Can a colleague pick up your idea, perform the analysis,
and evaluate the data in reality? The data analysis part of the proposal is complete
if you can honestly address this question in the affirmative.

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