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	मिश्रित विधि मेटा-अनुमान	व्याख्यात्मक अनुक्रमिक मिश्रित विधि डिज़ाइन
क्षेत्र	अनुसंधान अभिकल्प	अनुसंधान अभिकल्प
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1998–2003	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)
प्रवर्तक	Abbas Tashakkori & Charles Teddlie	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
प्रकार	Mixed methods integration procedure	Mixed methods research design
मौलिक स्रोत	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	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379
उपनाम	meta-inference, mixed methods overall inference, integrated inference, MMR meta-inference	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design
संबंधित	6	6
सारांश	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.	The explanatory sequential mixed methods design is a two-phase research approach in which a quantitative study is conducted first, and qualitative data are then collected specifically to help explain or elaborate the initial quantitative results. The quantitative phase carries greater priority; the qualitative phase is purposefully built around the findings — such as surprising results, outliers, or statistically significant relationships — that need deeper interpretation.