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 QUALITATIVE AND MIXED METHODS SOFTWARE
WITH UNPARALLELED COMPUTER-ASSISTED CODING, ANALYSIS,
AND REPORT WRITING CAPABILITIES.

WHAT IS QDA MINER?

QDA Miner is an easy-to-use mixed methods qualitative data analysis software package for
coding, annotating, retrieving and analyzing small and large collections of documents and
images.

QDA Miner may be used to analyze interview or focus-group transcripts, legal documents,
journal articles, even entire books, as well as drawings, pictures, paintings, and other types of
visual documents.

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its content to structured information, including numerical and categorical data.

WHO USES QDA MINER?

Anyone who needs to code text or pictures, annotate,
search, explore and extract information from small and large
collections of documents and images such as:

- Political scientists, sociologists and ethnographers

- Researchers in social sciences, medicine, psychology

and communication studies

- Market researchers, pollsters and business intelligence

professionals

- Crime analysts, fraud detection experts, lawyers, and

paralegal professionals

- Journalists, historians and research assistants

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user settings, a powerful merge feature for bringing
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of multiple coders as well as an inter-raters agreement
module for assessing coding reliability.
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clustering, multidimensional scaling, heatmaps, cor-
respondence analysis, co-occurrence and sequence
analysis, allow one to quickly identify patterns and
trends, explore data, describe, compare and test
hypotheses.
Unique computer assistance for coding with more
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section retrieval, a powerful query-by-example search
tool that learns from the user, and a unique cluster
extraction and coding tool. All these tools allow one to
achieve more reliable coding in less time.
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assisting qualitative researchers in the report-writing
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FOR FAST AND PRECISE PROCESSING OF LARGE AMOUNTS
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YOU NEED TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM LARGE AMOUNTS

OF DOCUMENTS, CUSTOMER FEEDBACK, INTERVIEW
TRANSCRIPTS OR OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES?
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precise measurement with a state-of-the-art quantitative content analysis method, WordStat provides a
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structured information including numerical and categorical data.

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- Content analysis of open-ended responses, interview or focus
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knowledge from large untapped sources of textual information, yet remaining easy to use.

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using categorization dictionaries.
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such as clustering, multidimensional scaling and proximity
plots to quickly extract themes and automatically identify
patterns without the need to read the documents.

Relates unstructured text with structured information
such as dates, numbers or categorical data for identifying
temporal trends or differences between subgroups or
for assessing relationships of any kind of categorical or
numerical data such as age groups, rating, etc.
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dictionary with selected words, word patterns, phrases,
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 POWERFUL AND USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE
FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND BOOTSTRAPPING.

“SIMSTAT FOR WINDOWS SHOULD BE GIVEN SERIOUS CONSIDERATION

BY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS INTERESTED IN AN ALTERNATIVE TO SPSS FOR
WINDOWS OR SIMILAR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE.”
Social Science Computer Review

Simstat is an easy-to-use statistical software offering a wide range of statistics, intuitive data and output
management features as well as its own scripting language to automate statistical analysis and to write small
applications, interactive tutorials, computer assisted interviewing systems.

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questions, interview transcripts, full reports, etc. Since all Provalis Research
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numerical and categorical data using Simstat, perform qualitative coding on
stored documents using QDA Miner or apply the powerful content analysis
and text mining features of WordStat on those same documents. Moreover,
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gives a unique ability to explore relationships between numerical and textual
variables or compare qualitative codings or content categories between
subgroups of individuals.

KEY STATISTICAL FEATURES

- DESCRIPTIVE and FREQUENCY analysis including
frequencies table, descriptive statistics, percentiles table,
bar chart, pie chart, Pareto chart, histogram, normal
probability plot, box-and-whisker plot and cumulative
distribution plot.
- CROSSTABULATION: normal crosstabulation for nominal
and ordinal statistics, inter-raters agreement statistics, 3-D
bar chart.
- BREAKDOWN analysis with box-and-whisker plot.
- Interactive PARTIAL CORRELATION MATRIX with user-
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methods (hierarchical entry, forward, backward, stepwise,
all), ANOVA table, test of change, residuals analysis,
Durbin-Watson statistic, etc.

- MULTIPLE RESPONSES frequency and crosstabulation.
- PAIRED AND INDEPENDENT T-TESTS with effect size
measures (r and d), error bar graph, bar chart, etc.
- ONEWAY ANOVA with post hoc tests, effect size measures,
error bar graph, bar chart, deviation chart.
- GLM ANOVA/ANCOVA with detailed ANOVA table,
adjustment for unequal cell sizes, multiple regression
statistics, test of change of R-Square, residuals analysis.
- CLASSICAL ITEM ANALYSIS for multiple-choice item
questionnaires.
- SINGLE-CASE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN analysis with
descriptive statistics, interrupted time-series graph,
smoothing, trend lines and control bars.
- RELIABILITY analysis with item, inter-item and item-total
statistics, split-half reliability, Cronbach’s alpha, etc.

KEY STATISTICAL FEATURES
- TIME SERIES analysis including data transformation, ACF
and PACF plot, smoothing techniques, control bars with user-
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and image covariance factor analysis, Q-type factor analysis,
varimax rotation, scree plot, etc.
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power analysis, random sampling simulation, histogram.
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extreme reactions, median test (two or more samples).

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D, Spearman’s Rho, Dxy and Dyx, Goodman Kruskal’s Gamma,
Tau-a, Tau-b, and Tau-c, etc.

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MVSP performs several types of eigen analysis ordinations: principal components analysis (PCA),
principal coordinates analysis (PCO), and correspondence/detrended correspondence analysis (CA/
DCA). It also does canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), a technique highly popular in ecological
studies. It can also perform cluster analysis, using 23 different distance or similarity measures and
seven clustering strategies. The number of cases and variables that can be analyzed is limited only
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2 billion cases and variables.

DESKTOP
MVSP uses the KCS desktop metaphor (see this screen shot). You can spread out
your data, the statistical results and graphs in front of you while you study them,
just like paper on your desktop. It also has a notepad where you can jot down
ideas and observations. Try new graphs, add new data, peruse the results, then
print or save just those that you need.

GRAPHICS
Once your data has been analyzed you can plot the results directly. Select the
ordination axes you want to see and scattergrams will be drawn. Joint plots of both
variables and cases can be drawn for CA results. Euclidean biplots of PCA results
(with variables as vectors) can be produced, as can biplots of the environmental
variables in CCA. Scree plots can also be produced for PCA, PCO and CA/CCA.
Scatterplots of the original variables can also be produced, as well as box-and-
whisker plots summarizing each variable.
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EXAMINATION OF WHAT TEXT TRULY IS SAYING, WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME OFFERING A WIDER VARIETY OF WAYS TO DISPLAY RESULTS AND A
STRONGER STATISTICAL FOUNDATION UPON WHICH USERS CAN CONDUCT
ANALYSES THAN MOST CONTENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE CURRENTLY
AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET.”
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ProSuite is an integrated collection of Provalis Research tools allowing one to

explore, analyze and relate both structured and unstructured data. It allows one to
perform qualitative coding on documents and images using QDA Miner, to apply
the powerful content analysis and text mining features of WordStat on textual data,
and to perform advanced statistical analysis on numerical and categorical data
using SimStat.

The interoperability of these tools allows researchers to integrate numerical and

textual data into a single project and to seamlessly move back and forth between
quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

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