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The objective of this research was to determine factors that influence application of non-parametric and parametric analysis techniques amongst master's and doctoral research. The data emanated from research done by postgraduate students over a ten year period (1995-2004) and archived by the project in postgraduate education research (PPER).
A Survey of three South African universities was conducted. The classification of researches from chosen prominent universities were made by research title, research topic, target population, data collection method, and other diversity titles which were used to map the position of non parametric and parametric analysis. The sample in the three (3) universities included four hundred and twenty-one (421) sampled researches.
The first finding indicated that the data presentation chapters of the sampled researches were all analysed using descriptive analysis without application of non-parametric and parametric techniques. This is because postgraduate researchers often tend to respond to problems involving data analysis in general by falling into a number crunching mode, plugging quantities into tables or graphs or procedures without forming an internal representation of data (stokes, Davis and Koch, 2008).