Qualitative Research May Be Undertaken for

question 63

Multiple Choice

Qualitative research may be undertaken for

• A)descriptive purposes.
• B)the construction of an ethnography.
• C)explanatory purposes.
• D)descriptive purposes and the construction of an ethnography.
• E)descriptive purposes, the construction of an ethnography, and/or explanatory purposes.

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Definitions:

M/M/S

A model used in queueing theory representing a system with multiple servers where arrivals and service times are Poisson distributed and exponentially distributed, respectively.

Average Time

The mean value that represents the central tendency of a set of times, often used to summarize the typical amount of time required for a process.

Utilization Factor

A measure that assesses how effectively a production resource is used, typically comparing actual output to maximum possible output.

Poisson Distribution

A statistical probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.