Question

In ________ research, the objective is to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses. analytic causal descriptive statistical exploratory

Answer 1

Exploratory or Formulative research

Explanation:

Generally, Exploratory or Formulative research is a type of research that considers all designs for a problem/study and chooses the best from all that has been considered. This is ensured by perusing literature backings that are available, first hand information from those with direct impact on the study and putting to use different theoretical techniques to ensure the best is gotten from such research.