Question

Christensen and Crank (2001) interviewed police officers in a non-urban police agency to examine how these officers were similar to (and different from) the more frequently studied group of urban police officers. They were especially interested in the ways in which non-urban officers think about (or see) their work. What kind of research is this?

A. Exploratory Research

B. Evaluation Research

C. Explanatory Research

D. Descriptive Research

Answer 1

It is most oftenly

A. Exploratory research

In which we can consider several variables affecting thinking ability about their work

We can also compare two groups urban & non-urban police officers ) by exploratory techniques. Using PCA we can find most important or contributing variables . We can cluster the observatios using clustering . Also, bydiscriminant analysis, we can find misplaced observation i.e. misclassification.