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What Does the MAXDictio Coder Do?
The “MAXDictio Coder” carries out an automatic quantitative content analysis. The procedure is as follows: Starting with the first word of the first text, the program checks the active dictionary to see whether this word is contained in it as a word or word segment. If so, and the word is active for the analysis, the category counter increases by one. The search continues with this word, as it is possible to assign one word to more than one category. If a further allocation has been found, MAXDictio will also increase the counter for this category by one. After the whole dictionary has been assessed, the coder proceeds to the next word in the text.
This automatic coding results in a data matrix, in which the texts are represented in the lines and the categories in the columns:
A data matrix consisting of the automatic codings is shown in the “Results of MAXDictio Coder” window
Such a matrix resembles the illustration above. Each line contains the results of one text and begins by naming the document group and document name. The next column, “Code,” contains the name of the code of this particular text unit, if any (see below). Then comes a column that contains the total number of counted words in the text. These numbers are followed by the frequencies of the categories.
There are numbers in the cells that specify how many times a given category has been found in the given text.
This matrix is like other tables in MAXQDA – similar to a table in MS Excel. By clicking on a column title, the whole table will be assorted in ascending or descending order.
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