sampling

• Verb

  present participle and gerund of sample

• Noun

is

• Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of be
  2. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
  3. present indicative of be; am, are, is.

• Pron
• Noun

however

• Adv

  1. Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that.
  2. In contrast.
  3. To whatever degree or extent.
  4. (informal) In any way that one likes or chooses; in a haphazard or spontaneous way.
  5. How ever: an emphatic form of how, used to ask in what manner.
  6. (obsolete) In any case, at any rate, at all events.

• Conj

widely

1. In a wide manner; across a wide area.
2. Commonly; generally; to a great degree.

used

• Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of use
  2. To perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something].

• Adj

in

• Prep

  1. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  2. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  3. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  4. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  5. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  6. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  7. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  8. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  9. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
  10. Into.
  11. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
  12. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
  13. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
  14. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
  15. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
  16. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
  17. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.

• Verb
• Adv
• Noun
• Adj
• Noun

qualitative research

A set of research techniques in which data is obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques.

qualitative

• Adj

  1. Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
  2. Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.

• Noun