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Quantitative research is employed to identify cause and effect and test hypotheses, as well as to make predictions.
The purpose is to explain, control and/or predict phenomena via a quantitative collection of numerical data. Variables are specified, and data collection includes numbers and statistics.
Quantitative research may also answer the questions, how much and how many. Research objectives are to explain, predict, and describe.
Quantitative is statistical in nature and usually includes comparisons of means, correlations, statistical significance of findings.
With a quantitative study, the aim of the researcher is to determine the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent relationship. Essentially the researcher compares one thing to another.
Quantitative research may be either descriptive or experimental.
Choose a population Select an independent variable and a dependent variable of your chosen population.
Using your imagination
What is the population of the study?
Construct the validity (identify the independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s) being measured.
List the hypothetical methods and tools to collect information.
How will data be analyzed?