IT INCLUDES A DETAILED STUDY OF THE TYPES OF RESEARCH.

1. PREPARED BY:
DR. SHEELU SINGH BHATIA

2.  There are different types of research which
are classified in various categories including
Applicability, the mode of enquiry in
conducting the study and major objectives of
the study.

3.  Pure or fundamental research; no immediate
need:
 New theories can be added to the knowledge
cluster,
 May solve problems but may not have
practical applications:
 Broader scope as compared to applied
research.

4.  Tries to solve an immediate specific problem
faced by industry or society;
 Obtained solution can be deployed to solve
the problem,
 Duration of is shorter as a quick solution is
expected;
 Optimized search type problem (e.g.
engineering domain);
 Either address the unsolved problem or
improve the existing solution.

5.  Used in business analysis or social problems;
 Does not have any control over the
parameters or variables;
 Just tries to represent or Analyse the previous
and or current facts;
 Correlational methods, survey methods, and
comparative studies are used.

6.  Uses existing information to explain a complex
phenomenon or to perform a critical evaluation;
 Identified hypothesis can be accepted or rejected
depending on the analysis;
 From experience the hypothesis can be
redefined;
 Observed in historical study, forensic work, food,
in the medical domain etc.;
 Summarizes and evaluates the ideas in historical
research for ac cessing both witness and
literature sources to document past events;
 Data can be presented to support the data in
comprehensive model.

7.  Focuses on exploring the relationship or
association between incidences, variables;
 From the collected data, researchers may
come up with number of observations and
analytics.

8.  Mainly deals with the quality or the types of
the parameters considered for the research;
 Differences in the parameter may occur with
time;
 Related to human behaviour;
 More complicated and requires more
guidance;
 Less emphasis is given on generalization and
more focus is towards individual;
 Focus of the work is to find results with
respect to qualitative parameters.

9.  Involves measurements of quantities of
characteristics that can be used as features
for the research study;
 Assumes that the world is stable and uses
statistical analysis on parameter values for
conclusions:
 Statistical quantities that can be measured
are involved.

10.  Focuses on the fieldwork and experiments
that can control the in dependent variable;
 Can be tested and trained with pre- and
post-experimental research design.

11.  Tries to analyse and justify the reason behind
the occurrence of particular phenomenon or
association between the variables; answers
the "Why" type of questions;
 Aims to explain why a relationship,
association, or interdependence exist;
 A causal research with three important
components like time-to time sequences
which will occur before the effect,
concomitant variations, where the variations
will be systematic between two variables.

12.  Explores the areas that have required meagre
attention;
 For checking the possibility of research in the
particular domain or area.
 A small-scale study is done to decide the
further scope of advancement in domain.
 Depending on outcomes of study, domain is
further explored for in depth research on the
specific topic.