title: Issues in data analysis.
abstract: NURSE RESEARCHER publishes a wide range of methodology papers, many of which aim to give guidance to early researchers. Here I comment on two papers. The first, Qualitative case study data analysis: an example from practice ( Houghton et al 2015 ) is clearly comprehendible by novice researchers. The second, Multiple imputation method for handling missing data: A case study of a secondary data analysis study ( Walani and Cleland 2015 ) is a rather different case. This is a useful paper but deals with a complex issue in quantitative data analysis. If you have looked at this paper and found it hard going then please read the following few paragraphs where I try to put this paper into context.
authors.affiliation: School of Healthcare, University of Leeds.
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Anthony
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design; D012984:Software