How Is the Review of Literature Different for Reports of Qualitative

question 8

Multiple Choice

How is the review of literature different for reports of qualitative studies and reports of quantitative studies?

• A) Literature review has no role in qualitative research.
• B) Articles for literature review in qualitative studies are largely drawn from secondary sources.
• C) Often the literature review for a qualitative study is not conducted until after the study has been completed.
• D) The processes involved in literature review are the same for both qualitative and quantitative studies.

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Definitions:

Kurtosis

A statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in relation to a normal distribution.

Distribution

The way in which a set of values is spread or dispersed across a range, often visualized as a graph plotting the frequency of different outcomes.

Kurtosis

A statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in comparison to a normal distribution.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, often referring to the statistical spread of values in a dataset.