15 Methods of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research. Compiled by Donald Ratcliff. 1. Typology - a classification system, taken from patterns, themes, or other kinds of groups of data. (Patton pp. 393,398) John Lofland & Lyn Lofland Ideally, categories should be mutually exclusive and exhaustive if possible, often they aren't. Pollach, Irene (2012), Taming Textual Data: The Contribution of Corpus Linguistics to Computer Aided Text Analysis Organizational Research Methods 15(2) 263-287. Denzin, N.K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (1984), Handbook of Qualitative Research, Newbury Park: Sage Publications. Mays N. & Pope C, (1996). Qualitative research in health care. London: British ... Examples of uses of mixed methods that would be applicable to medical education research include: collecting qualitative and quantitative data for more complete program evaluation, collecting qualitative data to inform the research design or instrument development of a quantitative study, or collecting qualitative data to explain the meaning ...