Throughout this post, we’ve defined quantitative and qualitative data and explained how they differ. What it really boils down to, in very simple terms, is that quantitative data is countable or measurable, relating to numbers, while qualitative data is descriptive, relating to language. Understa...
Here’s an exploration of this research method and how you can best use it for maximum effect for your business. Read on to learn more!
Qualitative research is all about language, expression, body language and other forms of human communication. That covers words, meanings and understanding. Qualitative research is used to describe WHY. Why do people feel the way they do, why do they act in a certain way, what opinions do the...
Unlike traditionalqualitative investment analysts, quants don’t visit companies, meet the management teams, or research the products the firms sell to identify a competitive edge. They often don’t know or care about the qualitative aspects of the companies they invest in or the products or servi...
Quantitative Methods of Marketing Research Quantitative methods seek to measure various offering-, consumer-, or market-related phenomena in an entire population and to explain patterns of predefined offering-, consumer-, or market-related phenomena through causal inference or teleological explanation. Such...
Research attempting to find common features of pleiotropic genes suggests that genes with higher levels of pleiotropy tend to encode proteins that are distributed throughout more cellular compartments or tissues, and are involved in more protein–protein interactions (He and Zhang, 2006; Dudley et al...
Quantitative analysis (QA) is a set of techniques that use mathematical and statistical modeling, measurement, and research to understand behavior. Quantitative analysis presents financial information in terms of a numerical value. It's used for the evaluation of financial instruments and for predicting...
Quantitative research is designed to gather data points in measurable, numerical form. Qualitative research relies on the observation and collection of non-numerical insights such as opinions and motivations. Essentially, quantitative research gives you hard data, while qualitative helps you explore more ...
Be Objective: scientist needs to make sure that her or his personal emotions, predictions, and biases do not get in the way of the observations. Control: process where an individual both prevents personal biases from interfering with the research study and makes sure there are no other explanati...
We compare complexity rankings across corpora and show that a language that tends to be more complex than another language in one corpus also tends to be more complex in another corpus. In addition, we show that speaker population size predicts entropy. We argue that both results constitute ...