Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ποσοτικά-Κυρίαρχη Μετα-Συμπερασματολογία Μεικτών Μεθόδων	Μετα-συμπερασματολογία Μικτών Μεθόδων
Πεδίο	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2003–2007	1998–2003
Δημιουργός	Tashakkori & Teddlie (meta-inference concept); Creswell & Plano Clark (dominance weighting framework)	Abbas Tashakkori & Charles Teddlie
Τύπος	Mixed methods integration procedure	Mixed methods integration procedure
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Tashakkori, A., & Teddlie, C. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761920731	Teddlie, C., & Tashakkori, A. (2009). Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761930129
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	QUAN-dominant meta-inference, quantitatively weighted meta-inference, QUAN-priority integration inference, quantitative-weighted mixed inference	meta-inference, mixed methods overall inference, integrated inference, MMR meta-inference
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Quantitative-dominant mixed methods meta-inference is an integration procedure in which the researcher draws an overarching conclusion by combining inferences from both quantitative and qualitative strands, while explicitly assigning greater evidential weight to the quantitative results. The qualitative strand serves a supporting, elaborating, or contextualizing role rather than an equal voice in the final interpretation.	Mixed methods meta-inference is the overarching conclusion drawn at the end of a mixed methods study by systematically combining and integrating the separate inferences produced by the quantitative and qualitative strands. It represents the highest-level interpretive act in mixed methods research: moving beyond strand-specific findings to produce a unified, coherent understanding of the research problem that neither strand could yield alone.