Research Method

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is made to generate a theory with consistent facts, it is called induction, on the contrary deduction involves the gathering of facts to confirm or disprove hypothesized relationships among variables that have been deduced from proposition or earlier theories (Ghauri, 1995:9).

Research method and methodology

Research is one of the many methods to find answer to a question. The implication of research is that a process being undertaken within a framework of a set of philosophies; uses validated and reliable procedures, methods and techniques, and is designed to be unbiased and objective (Kumar, 2005:7). The research methodology describes the systematic way to solve a research problem. Beside of knowing variety of research methods such as the calculation of mean, mode or median, and application of particular of research techniques, a researcher will also have to know which if these method or techniques are relevant and if it's not, he/she can tell why.

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regarding the bigger group (Kumar, 2005:164). Suppose that a research that studies the element of demand that will contribute to the sales of a car manufacturer in a specific country or region and it will be time consuming and high cost, therefore it is easier to select a sample from the population to be the representative of the population. Anyone in that region or country can be the population regardless they are able to afford a car or not, qualitative or quantitative questionnaires can be used to determine the elements that a customer seeks in a car.

Concept of Probability and Non-Probability

Probability sampling implies that it is necessary for each element in the population ...

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