Nursing 3340A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grounded Theory, Standard Deviation, Exploratory Data Analysis
9 Dec 2016
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Direct or indirect observations field notes. The search for patterns in data and ideas about why those patterns occur. Trying to understand and explain what is happening, how it happens, and/or why it happens. Reiterative process of developing, testing, and tweaking ideas (theories) based on observations. Your analysis will match the level of data you"ve done. A summary of numerical data ex. Frequencies tables, histograms or polygons; raw numbers and percent"s. Central tendency mean, median, mode, standard deviation; represents the typical value in the data. People often use visuals in quantitative data. Begin each entry with date, time, place, and type of data collection event. Leave space on the page to expand notes. Take notes strategically; write keywords and phrases to trigger your memory when you expand notes. Use shorthand make your own shorthand system of abbreviations and acronyms; expand later.
