Qualitative Data Analysis

By John Seidel

This document appears as Appendix E in the manual for v5 of The Ethnograph.  It is a statement of some of the developers ideas concerning Qualitative Data Analysis.  Of course ideas change and evolve based on new experiences, discussions, and dialogues.  

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