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Connecting research purpose and frameworks for deductive inquiry
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| Type of purpose | Micro-conceptual framework | Methodology | Data analysis | Primary philosophical underpinning |
| Explanatory | Formal hypotheses | Quantitative, experimental design, survey, time series, existing data | Inferential statistics | Positivism |
| Descriptive | Categories | Quantitative, survey, content analysis | Simple descriptive statistics | Positivism |
| Exploratory | ??? Q2 | ??? Q3 | ??? Q4 | ??? Q1 |
