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  2. Data collection - Wikipedia

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    Data collection or data gathering is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes. Data collection is a research component in all study fields, including physical and social sciences, humanities, [2] and business ...

  3. Survey data collection - Wikipedia

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    With the application of probability sampling in the 1930s, surveys became a standard tool for empirical research in social sciences, marketing, and official statistics. [1] The methods involved in survey data collection are any of a number of ways in which data can be collected for a statistical survey. These are methods that are used to ...

  4. Data collection system - Wikipedia

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    Accurate data collection is essential to many business processes, [6] [7] [8] to the enforcement of many government regulations, [9] and to maintaining the integrity of scientific research. [10] Data collection systems are an end-product of software development. Identifying and categorizing software or a software sub-system as having aspects of ...

  5. Data analysis - Wikipedia

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    Data collection or data gathering is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes. The data may also be collected from sensors in the environment, including traffic cameras, satellites, recording devices, etc.

  6. Think aloud protocol - Wikipedia

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    A typical procedure of think-aloud protocols would include: Design the study and write the guide: Determine the number and type of participant for the study. Generally 5 participants would be sufficient. [9] The next step is to write a guide that ask the participants to complete the tasks intended with clear step-by-step instructions.

  7. Survey methodology - Wikipedia

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    Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". [1] As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey data collection, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys.

  8. Exploratory data analysis - Wikipedia

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    Tukey defined data analysis in 1961 as: "Procedures for analyzing data, techniques for interpreting the results of such procedures, ways of planning the gathering of data to make its analysis easier, more precise or more accurate, and all the machinery and results of (mathematical) statistics which apply to analyzing data." [3]

  9. Participant observation - Wikipedia

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    Participant observation is one type of data collection method by practitioner-scholars typically used in qualitative research and ethnography.This type of methodology is employed in many disciplines, particularly anthropology (including cultural anthropology and ethnology), sociology (including sociology of culture and cultural criminology), communication studies, human geography, and social ...