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Strictly the term refers to studies that draw upon very different paradigmatic assumptions and so employs a mix of data collection and analysis techniques that are based on very different (ontological and/or epistemological) commitments.
However, sometimes the term is used is a more trivial sense for any study using multiple techniques or any study collecting both qualitative and quantitative data.
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