เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การอนุมานอภิมานแบบวิธีผสมที่เน้นเชิงคุณภาพ	การออกแบบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมผสานเชิงสำรวจตามลำดับ
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	การออกแบบการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2003–2010	1990s–2000s (codified by ~2007)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Abbas Tashakkori & Charles Teddlie	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
ประเภท	Mixed methods integration strategy	Mixed methods research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Tashakkori, A., & Teddlie, C. (Eds.). (2010). SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-1412972666	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	QUAL-dominant meta-inference, qualitative-priority meta-inference, qual-dominant MMR meta-inference, qualitative-weighted mixed methods integration	QUAL → QUAN design, exploratory sequential design, instrument-development design, theory-building mixed methods
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	Qualitative-dominant mixed methods meta-inference is the overarching inference-drawing process in a mixed methods study where qualitative findings carry primary explanatory weight. Meta-inference — the integrated conclusion drawn by combining qualitative and quantitative strands — is anchored to and interpreted through the richer, theoretically foregrounded qualitative findings, with quantitative results serving a supplementary, corroborating, or contextualizing function.	The exploratory sequential mixed methods design is a two-phase research framework in which a qualitative phase is conducted first to explore a poorly understood phenomenon, and the findings then inform a subsequent quantitative phase — typically to develop and test a survey instrument, measure a theory, or generalize qualitative insights to a larger population. The qualitative strand guides what is measured; the quantitative strand tests or extends those findings at scale.