First Steps in Quantitative Analysis

First steps in qualitative data analysis: transcribing.

Qualitative research in primary care deepens understanding of phenomena such as health, illness and health care encounters. Many qualitative studies collect audio or video data (e.g. recordings of interviews, focus groups or talk in consultation), and these are usually transcribed into written form for closer study. Transcribing appears to be a straightforward technical task, but in fact involv...

First Steps in the stit -Logic Analysis of Intentional Action

We study intentional action in stit-logic. The formal logic study of intentional action appears to be new, since most logical studies of intention concern intention as a mental state. We model an intentional action as an action that possibly deviates from the actual action conducted by an agent. First, an actual action may deviate from an intended action because the agent is not able to carry o...

The First Steps in Seeing

First Steps in Relational Lattice

Relational lattice reduces the set of six classic relational algebra operators to two binary lattice operations: natural join and inner union. We give an introduction to this theory with emphasis on formal algebraic laws. New results include Spight distributivity criteria and its applications to query transformations.

First Steps in Exploratory Data