Exam 5: Selecting a Methodology for Your Capstone Project

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One aspect of the research process that is unique to secondary data analysis is the need for the researcher to get to know the data set. When primary data analysis is used, the investigator selects the study population and then selects study participants from the population. With secondary analysis, familiarity with study subjects is absent and thus significant time must be devoted to determining who initially captured the data, the purpose of the initial data collection, whether or not another researcher previously validated the data, and if obvious gaps in the data exist.