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Statistics Corner: Characteristics of sound mixed methods research

Article appearing in Shiken 20.1 (June 2016) pp. 21-24.

Author: James Dean Brown
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Question:
In Brown, 2005, you described the characteristics of sound qualitative research by discussing the importance of dependability, credibility, confirmability, and transferability. I think it would also be useful to know about the characteristics of sound quantitative and even mixed methods research. Could you address these research paradigms as well?

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