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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_research

In natural sciences and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques.^[1] The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and hypotheses pertaining to phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative relationships. Quantitative data is any data that is in numerical form such as statistics, percentages, etc.^[1] The researcher analyzes the data with the help of statistics. The researcher is hoping the numbers will yield an unbiased result that can be generalized to some larger population. Qualitative research, on the other hand, asks broad questions and collects word data from phenomena or participants. The researcher looks for themes and describes the information in themes and patterns exclusive to that set of participants.

In social sciences, quantitative research is widely used in psychology, economics, demography, sociology, marketing, community health, health & human development, gender and political science, and less frequently in anthropology and history. Research in mathematical sciences such as physics is also 'quantitative' by definition, though this use of the term differs in context. In the social sciences, the term relates to empirical methods, originating in both philosophical positivism and the history of statistics, which contrast with qualitative research methods.

Qualitative research produces information only on the particular cases studied, and any more general conclusions are only hypotheses. Quantitative methods can be used to verify which of such hypotheses are true.

A comprehensive analysis of 1274 articles published in the top two American sociology journals between 1935 and 2005 found that roughly two thirds of these articles used quantitative method.^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quantitative_research

A list of articles relating to quantitative research methods.

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• Quantitative Research Criticism

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`    Mathematical and quantitative methods (economics) (13 C, 60 P)

• Quantitative Research Methods

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`Quantitative analysis of behavior (8 P)

Quantitative linguistics (23 P)

`    Quantitative marketing research (12 P)

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`Survey methodology (4 C, 61 P)

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`    Quantitative research

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`    Arabesque Partners

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`    Juan Battle

    Bibliometrix

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`    CIRI Human Rights Data Project

    Content analysis

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`    Data editing

    Design of experiments

    Design space exploration

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`    Index (statistics)

    Interrupted time series

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`    Labour Force Survey

    List of schools for quantitative psychology

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`    Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

    Most probable number

    Multiple baseline design

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`    Optimal matching

    Outcome factorisation

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`    Quantitative history

    Quantitative linguistics

    Quantitative marketing research

    Quantitative psychological research

    Quantitative psychology

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`    Sociometry

    Structured interview

    Survey methodology

    Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

    Swiss Labour Force Survey

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`    Wait list control group

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