winMAX 質性分析軟體

winMAX info

winMAX is used for the analysis of all kinds of text and qualitative data like narrative interviews, focus groups, all kinds of unstructured interviews, case histories, field notes, observation protocols, documents, letters and other written material.

winMAX offers:

• Visualization of basic functions like codes and memos

• Complex and flexible coding & retrieval functions (Boolean, proximity and semantic retrieval)

• Lexical search and automatic coding

• Merging of qualitative and quantitative data

• Import and export of data matrices

• Complex and powerful theory building tools

• Unique functions like coding weighting variables and team work procedures

• Special procedures for the analysis of open-ended questions

With winMAX you can

• create a set of texts and put texts together in text groups

• store context informations like socio-demographic variables together with your texts

• search for words or combinations of words in texts or text groups

• display the search hits as keyword-in-context

• code search results automatically
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• construct a hierarchical category system with 10 hierarchy levels

• attach codes to segments of text

• write code memos (for instance the definition of a category)

• define text segments when coding (the smallest unit for coding is a word)

• assign a weight value to coded segments to indicate their relevance
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• attach memos to text lines

• attach codes or combinations of codes to memos

• use a memo manager to select memos according to five different criteria (codes or patterns of codes, texts, autohor, date, word/strings in memo text field)

• define quantitative variables for each text

• retrieve text by using these codes and variables
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• use the hierarchy option to includes all subcodes in retrievals

• use the weight option to retreive only relevant segments

• export the quantitatve data matrix from winMAX to a statistical program such as SPSS

• import a data matrix from a statistical program in order to combine qualitative and quantitative analysis

• pre-code a text before importing the text into winMAX, for example open-ended questions in questionnaires
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• work together in a research team with different PC'S

• put together your whole project (textgroups, texts, codes, memos, code referencies and variables) into a winMAX archive file

• work together in international research projects exchanging your work by use of winMAX archive files

• merge different projects (for instance for qualitative panel studies)

• use a set of ten different analytic strategies to test co-occurences of codes

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