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Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 27, 2012 at 09:41 PM
Cassius wrote:
>Well, it looks like there are some statistically oriented people in our group. Not
>having done work in the area of categorizing data, I can only guess that the software
>discussed uses cluster analysis.
Actually both NVivo and Atlas.ti are primarily qualitative research tools, so categorising is mostly done on a textual basis (the user coming up with categories based on the meaning of textual segments). Although there are some features in NVivo that try to quantify some qualitative information, such as the frequency of words or summarising qualitative questionnaire results.