Presenting Qualitative Data

Presenting Clinical and Laboratory Data of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Abstract Background Leukemia is the most prevalent childhood cancer and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) constitutes 75% of all cases. The most frequent presenting symptoms are fever, weight loss and pallor. Early detection of clinical symptoms positively affects timely diagnosis. The objectives of the present study were to assess frequency of presenting symptoms, laboratory data, immune ph...

Analyzing qualitative data.

Data analysis in qualitative research is a creative process. As the instrument of data analysis, the researcher explores and reflects on the meaning of the data. In most qualitative traditions, the data analysis phase overlaps the data collection phase. As data analysis proceeds, the researcher moves back and forth between data analysis and data collection in order to create and explain the fin...

Analyzing Qualitative Data

Qualitative data analysis

ions are powerful means of making comparisons, but we must also remember their origins and limitations. In making comparisons, it is helpful to distinguish between two forms of relation between objects or events (cf. Sayer (1992:88). On the one hand, we can identify ‘substantial’ relations of connection and interaction. When we laugh at a joke, for example, there is a substantial connection bet...

Qualitative Data Cleaning

Data quality is one of the most important problems in data management, since dirty data often leads to inaccurate data analytics results and wrong business decisions. Data cleaning exercise often consist of two phases: error detection and error repairing. Error detection techniques can either be quantitative or qualitative; and error repairing is performed by applying data transformation script...