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VARIABLES - This option allows you to specify on which document variables the analysis will be
performed. If the current project contains more than one document variable, you will have a
choiceof selecting either one or more of them. By default, all document variables are selected. To
restrict the analysis to a few of them, click the down arrow key at the right of the list box. A list of
all available document variables will appear. Select all variables that you want to analyze.
By default, text analysis is performed on the entire document (All Text option). However, it is
also possible to restrict the analysis to specific coded segments or exclude segments from the
analysis by enabling the Coded Segments option. Set the list box immediately to the right of this
option to Is if you want to analyze only the text found in the selected segments. Set it to Is not to
exclude these text segments from the analysis. Finally, select the code segments to analyze or to
exclude either from a drop-down checklist by clicking the arrow button at the right end of the list
box or from a tree representation of the codebook by clicking the
button.
IN RELATION WITH - This set of options allows you to specify whether the quantitative content
analysis should consider potential differences or relationship with one or more quantitative or
categorical variables. If Nothing is selected, WordStat will allow descriptive as well as co-
occurrence analysis on words or categories of words. Selecting the Other Variables option adds
the possibility of examining in WordStat the relationship between these words or categories and
the values of quantitative or categorical variables. The drop-down list box below this option is
used to select the variables in relation to which the analysis will be performed. Selecting
Assigned Codes or Category allows one to analyze the text assigned to codes and identify
potential differences in words or categories of words associated with different codes. When this
option is enabled, a temporary file is created containing all text segments associated with the
selected codes along with a categorical variable to represent the code name. To add to this
temporary file any remaining text segments not associated with any one of those codes, enable the
Include category for remaining text option.
Once the options have been set, click the OK button to call WordStat.
WordStat can also be called from various dialog boxes to analyze retrieved text segments. This feature is
available by clicking the
button located on the toolbar above the result table. In such a situation, the
text analysis is performed on a temporary data file. For this reason, all coding features normally available
in WordStat to apply codes to text segments are disabled.