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Peer reviewedYancey, Bernard D. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1988
The ultimate goal of the institutional researcher is not always to test a research hypothesis, but more often simply to find an appropriate model to gain an understanding of the underlying characteristics and interrelationships of the data. Exploratory data analysis provides a means of accomplishing this. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Institutional Research
