ABSTRACT
QDA Miner 1.0 was mixing qualitative and quantitative research tools in one software. One could say that the second element, still unique to QDA Miner, that justified the mixed methods label was that it shared the same file format as SimStat, the company's statistical software. A third reason why QDA Miner 1.0 claimed to be a true mixed methods software was its close integration with WordStat, a content analysis and text mining software. But the fact that WordStat presents itself as an add-on to QDA Miner or to SimStat greatly facilitates the combination of less common research methods to traditional ones which, by definition, could be considered as a different variety of mixed methods. In the study previously mentioned, data analyses were performed independently, and the integration came only at the very end, which would be considered by some more as an example of a multimethod, rather than a mixed methods, research project.
