Quantitative Research
Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research – Use the following dot points to guide your discussion :
Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach.
Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
Communicate how this research design used in research.
Describe the characteristics of quantitative research. Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach.