Exploratory Research-Descriptive Research,-Casual Research

(i)Exploratory Research
(ii)Descriptive Research
(iii)Casual Research

There are so many types of Research methods, but generally there are 3 kinds of research;

1). Exploratory research where the objective is to gather preliminary information that will help to better define problems, suggest hypotheses for their solution and identifies new problems. For example any unique problem which has no precedence and researcher has to explore that problem comes under this category. Like crash or Boeing plane of British Airways, they don’t know why it happens and there is no record of such event in past. So they have to conduct a new research on it. This type of research knows as ‘Exploratory research’.

2). Descriptive research is where the intent is to describe things such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of customers who buy the product. Most of the time it refers to the statistical analysis of the data and based on details related to the phenomenon which is to be considered. Descriptive research answers the questions who, what, where, when and how...

3). Causal research is research to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships. For example “smoking causes cancer”, this statement is a simplest example of causal research.