Why You Need Expert Qualitative And Quantitative Dissertation Consulting

By Jessica Edwards


Data makes life hellish for students when compiling their dissertations. Unfortunately, avoiding these numbers is impossible at this level of academic pursuit. Further, their handling affects your conclusions and the deductions you make. This also affects the credibility of your arguments. Qualitative and quantitative dissertation consulting helps you make sense of numbers and apply them appropriately in your academic paper to product a strong and captivating argument.

For most students, data collection is an exercise that involves entering numbers and interviewing people. Data collection must be based on projected outcomes and must therefore be purposeful. You must get right the design of the data collection phase of the research. There is no way wrong data will give the right results. With erroneous data, the entire project is in jeopardy.

Consultants guide you on the methodology of your research. There is a direct relationship between the method used in collecting data and the outcomes realized. Methodology revolves around the statistical methods to be applied and techniques that the resulting data will be subjected to. These methods vary depending on the topic you are pursuing and thesis questions guiding your data collection and analysis.

Experienced statisticians play a major role in designing your research approaches and methods. Designs are as important to your paper as the foundation is to a building. Everything that happens to the data and the outcomes drawn will depend on the original design. With a unique topic, the design or approach used must also be unique. Each paper requires a customized design that reflects projected outcomes and the issues being probed.

Selection of variables- variables have an impact on the outcome of your investigations. It is the predetermined theory that dictates the variables that will be chosen or used. These variables must also be tested statistically to ensure that the outcomes they provide are reasonable and within statistical limits. You also need to be logical and purposeful when making such choices to avoid misleading your research.

There are tests that determine the validity and veracity of data collected. The world of statistics has already designed and defined these tests. The tests come in several formats and with different outcomes. Unless you have selected the right test and you know how to apply it, your results will be misleading. The tests justify the results obtained and validate your activity in data collection and analysis. An expert will guide you through.

Data presentation follows collection, analysis and testing. Everything you have been doing with figures has to be interpreted and presented in diagrams and words for people to understand. Consultants ensure that these processes are accurate to achieve desired results. If an error occurs during this phase, your entire project becomes useless. It will also not deliver the results you have been looking for. Errors also affect the authenticity of conclusions made.

Choosing between qualitative and quantitative data will depend on projected outcomes and the topic you are dealing with. The ease with which you conduct this research and quality of outcomes will depend on expert guidance by statistics consultants. It is consultants who help you make sense and light work of data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation. This raises the quality of your paper among readers and your profile within the academic field.




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