Other academic references - quantitative research

Problems with quantitative research, references:

"Clinical research with sheep is often constrained to use small samples. This places additional strains on traditional Frequentist statistical analyses: the results tend to lack statistical power, so there is a high likelihood that they will not be statistically significant. In addition, it is difficult to combine the results of more than one study."

P. J. Cripps; “Statistical and epidemiological methodology for sheep research: The needs, the problems, the solutions”
Small Ruminant Research
Volume 76, Issues 1-2, April 2008, Pages 26-30


Quantitative research best in order to back up other research. If a theory or problem is not already well understood then qualitative research is needed before a quantitative study is conducted.

John W. Creswell
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches
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