A validated computer assisted grading software was used at the VRC.
The CIDI is a fully structured interview questionnaire which was administered by lay interviewers using computer assisted interviewing software.
The CIDI is a fully structured interview questionnaire which was administered in both surveys by lay interviewers using computer assisted interviewing software.
Briefly, the quantitative analyses were performed using an Olympus BX61 microscope interfaced with a computer and an Olympus DP71 digital camera, and the NewCAST (Computer Assisted Stereological Toolbox) software package (Olympus, Denmark).
Thematic analysis will be supported by the use of computer assisted qualitative analysis software (NVIVO).
The slices were photographed and infarct size was calculated using automatic computer assisted image analysis software (Clemex, Quebec, Canada) as described before [ 29].
The sampling procedure was computer assisted with StereoInvestigator software (Microbrightfield Inc., Williston, VT, USA) so that the total volume of tissue sampled from each region in a given pair of alcohol and control brains was controlled at an identical value.
Frequency counts and measures of central tendency were conducted to analyze patient and caregiver characteristics using SPSS version 17. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed using computer assisted data analysis software (NVivo9).
The data gathered from the semi structured interviews will be carefully transcribed and anonymised and will then be subjected to thematic analysis utilising NVivo (computer assisted qualitative data software) to identify commonly occurring themes and the relationships between them.
Using data from multiple sources within the case study and managing the data within a computer assisted qualitative data analysis software package allowed the team to synthesise and empirically evaluate strength of evidence from multiple sources to support a particular finding.
