PAD: A graphical and numerical enhancement of structural coding to facilitate thematic analysis of a literature corpus

We suggest an enhancement to structural coding through the use of (a) causally bound codes, (b) basic constructs of graph theory and (c) statistics. As is the norm with structural coding, the codes are collected into categories. The categories are represented by nodes (graph theory). The causality i...

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Main Authors: Etienne-Victor Depasquale, Humaira Abdul Salam, Franco Davoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:MethodsX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016122000188