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4.3.3Pre-testing

Explain in detail how you will pre-test your survey questionnaire or data collection instrument (see Cooper & Schindler, 2003:388-391).

4.4DATA ANALYSIS

Describe how you will analyse the data gathered in your study in detail.

Where appropriate, students conducting quantitative research should address the following issues in this section:

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  Briefly indicate how you would validate, edit, code and clean your data in preparation for statistical and / or qualitative analysis.
  
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  Indicate the specific descriptive statistics – measures of location, spread & shape, as well as graphical descriptive methods – that you will use to describe each of the variables in your dataset.
  
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  Describe the hypothesis tests and multivariate statistical techniques that you will be using in your study (You should at least identify the appropriate parametric and non-parametric tests that you could use to test your specific hypotheses).
  
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  Indicate how you will test for the underlying assumptions of any parametric hypothesis tests.
  
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  Mention the software programmes that you will use to code and analyse you data.