"deductive analysis" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process by which a conclusion is based on general principles or facts that are already known. For example, "To draw our conclusion, we used a deductive analysis to compare the available data."
Mathematics lay at the heart of Descartes's method, for he imagined that in time all knowledge could be harnessed to the rigors of deductive analysis.
But I thought it might be interesting to try doing a bit of deductive analysis on the sudden 7 percent plunge in the Nikkei.
In this education model based on deductive analysis, it was seen that buildings, which have basic forms, were easily drawn; however, they could not solve the shaping logic of deformed froms.
Data analysis followed in three phases: i) an inductive analysis of district health priority setting to highlight experiences across each of the three districts selected, ii) deductive analysis applying A4R and the TSCF independently; and iii) a synthesis of concepts of priority setting practice and procedural fairness within a broader, theoretical understanding of the system.
These functions are all interactional in nature and were devised through deductive analysis of descriptors from the CLA, looking for interactional language useful for the language classroom.
Prior deductive analysis suggested that the scribe-owner may also have been the manuscript's artist, based on common motifs and an apparent shared colour palette appearing in both texts and artwork.
These researchers reported that by exploring alternative conceptions students realized that nonscientific beliefs are not supported by the hypothetico-deductive analysis of current scientific evidence.
The data were subjected to a "mixed" inductive-deductive analysis conducted in two main stages: an internal analysis of each case followed by a cross-sectional analysis of all the cases.
Deductive content analysis is used when the structure of analysis is operationalized on the basis of previous knowledge [ 23].
The deductive thematic analysis will apply attributes derived a priori from these theories and an inductive thematic analysis will integrate new themes, suggested by the data, into the scheme.
