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Encyclopedia > Quantitative analysis

Quantitative analysis has different meanings in different contexts. In most contexts it is contrasted with an alternative approach that is known as qualitative analysis.


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Quantitative Analysis (143 words)
Quantitative Analysis provides data-driven analytical services for a range of business challenges, specializing in statistical models for site selection decisions.
Quantitative Analysis can assist by applying advanced statistical analysis techniques to help you get more from your data, as well as external data sources.
With Quantitative Analysis, you’ll find that even a modest investment in analysis can yield great returns in increased revenues, improved profits, and better understanding of the decision at hand.
Qualitative Data Quantitative Analysis (1694 words)
Scholars of social change have lots of longitudinal quantitative data available (the Gallup poll for the last 50 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys for the last couple of decades, baseball statistics for over a hundred years, to name a few well-studied data sets), but longitudinal text data are produced naturally all the time.
In fact, in the phrases "qualitative data analysis" and "quantitative data analysis," it is impossible to tell if the adjectives "qualitative" and "quantitative" modify the simple noun "data" or the compound noun "data analysis." It turns out, of course, that both QDA phrases get used in both ways.
Quantitative analysis involves reducing people (as observed directly or through their texts) to numbers, while qualitative analysis involves reducing people to words -- and your words, at that.
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