Data Analysis Methods

After carefully looking at the doctoral study, one ought to find that some methods of data analysis were used in an appropriate manner. However, to make sense of the term data analysis it first needs to be defined in the context we are in. Data analysis refers to the process of investigating, transforming, cleaning and modelling data collected from a research or study with the sole purpose of discovering information that would be significant to the cause of the study (Agresti et al., 2011). Such information would including finding a trend or pattern in the data that would point to a certain point of view.