Deliberative Discussion Focus Groups

Focus groups.

This paper introduces focus group methodology and discusses its relevance to those researching health care provision. As a qualitative data collection technique, the focus group has advantages over other qualitative methods, such as the in-depth interview and nominal group technique. This paper highlights these advantages after providing guidelines on group composition, the management of group ...

Minutes of Discussion Groups

Minutes of Discussion Groups

Clinical intuition in mental health care: A discussion and focus groups

Discussion of “ Breakdown and Groups ”

1. General comments. The interesting paper of Davies and Gather (henceforth [DG]) pulls together results on upper bounds on the breakdown value of translation equivariant location estimators [Donoho (1982)], regression esti-mators [Rousseeuw (1984)] and affine equivariant scatter estimators [Davies (1987)] into a single framework of group equivariance. I can only agree with them on the importan...