ABSTRACT

The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis is a groundbreaking edited book – the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses, or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters, authored by internationally renowned scholars, provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis.

Each chapter demonstrates "how to conduct the analysis" in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e.g., factor analysis of text, multidimensional scaling of qualitative data); Part II Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data (e.g., qualitizing data, mixed methodological discourse analysis); Part III "Inherently" Mixed Analysis Approaches (e.g., qualitative comparative analysis, mixed methods social network analysis, social media analytics as mixed analysis, GIS as mixed analysis); and Part IV Use of Software for Mixed Data Analysis (e.g., QDA Miner, WordStat, MAXQDA, NVivo, SPSS).

The audience for this book includes (a) researchers, evaluators, and practitioners who conduct a variety of research projects and who are interested in using innovative analyses that will allow them to extract more from their data; (b) academics, including faculty who would use this book in their scholarship, as well as in their graduate-level courses, and graduate students who need access to a comprehensive set of mixed analysis tools for their dissertations/theses and other research assignments and projects; and (c) computer-assisted data analysis software developers who are seeking additional mixed analyses to include within their software programs.

Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

part I|116 pages

Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data

part II|32 pages

Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data

part III|118 pages

“Inherently” Mixed Analysis Approaches

chapter 17216|12 pages

Ethnographic Decision Models with Qualitative Data:

A Thoroughly Mixed Method1

chapter 17|13 pages

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

An Integrative Approach Suited for Diverse Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research Strategies

chapter 18|10 pages

Q Methodology as Mixed Analysis

chapter 24|12 pages

The Case Comparison Table

A Joint Display for Constructing and Sorting Simple Tables as Mixed Analysis

part IV|88 pages

Use of Software for Mixed Analysis

chapter 29025|14 pages

Mixing Beyond Mixed Methods

QDA Miner, SimStat, and WordStat