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Finally, for the data analysis, Stake (2007) follows two strategies in the case study: the direct interpretation of individual examples and a categorical sum of them.
Categorical sum scores were formulated on the basis of utility where an emphasis was placed on separating categories according to clinical meaningfulness.
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After applying the instruments and executing the categorical sums (Yin, 2012; Stake, 2007), the results are presented and contrasted with the conceptual information according to the categories used in order to give validity and reliability to the findings and their results: Educational innovation is a change process in the technological infrastructure.
By "the world" I mean only the whole concrete cosmos, and not any kind of trans-categorical sum (e.g., the sum of all entities across all categories).
Frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables; sum, mean, median and range for numerical variables.
In sum, categorical and dimensional accounts of emotion are not fundamentally contradictory but might be complementary.
The mean values for the two groups were compared with χ tests for categorical and Wilcoxon sum rank tests for continuous variables.
A pattern of use, i.e. the outcome variable, was converted into a categorical variable: the sum of three variables was obtained (pill used for birth control purposes, doctor consultation obtained, and pill was prescribed).
To avoid collinearity, scalar variables, fixed and random, were centered, while the categorical variables were sum-coded (i.e. male = 0.5, female = −0.5; u = 0.5, a = −0.5).
‡p<0.05 for χ test for categorical variables; Wilcoxon rank sum for age.
†Fisher exact test (categorical variables); Wilcoxon-rank sum test (continuous variables).
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