Bayesian methods for mixed method synthesis

Abstract

Received: July 09, 2019; Accepted: August 02, 2019; Published: August 06, 2019 Bayesian methods generate summative statements of the evidence through the meta-aggregation of data, and this can involve attributing a numerical value to all qualitative data, facilitating a final statistical analysis of individual syntheses (i.e. translating qualitative data into quantitative), or attributing a qualitative thematic description to all quantitative data, thereby permitting a final meta-aggregation of individual syntheses (i.e. translating quantitative data into qualitative) (Table 1) [1-4].