Essays on Quantitative Methods

Report on the relationship between assets and sales

Executive summary A company’s investment in foreign assets has a bearing on the amount of foreign sales it makes. The regression analysis indicates a positive association between the ratio of foreign sales to total sales and the ratio of foreign assets to total assets. This implies that transnational companies should invest more in foreign assets to improve their foreign sales. They should also consider other factors affecting foreign sales such as international marketing strategies including advertising expenditure, among others. Investment in foreign assets is not the only contributor to foreign sales as indicated by the model’s coefficient ...

1. Introduction This section defines a systematic approach using tools and techniques of research to carry out a research project (Jha, 2008; Kothari, 2004; Newman & Benz, 1998). 2. Research Approach The research aims to base the underlying study on quantitative approach for data collection. Quantitative methods will be utilized for the collection of theoretical data? A statistical analysis (linear regression analysis) will be conducted to achieve this purpose with the help of the secondary quantitative data relating to chosen economic indicators in India. Past studies can also have some numeric information and inference as well. This way, the study ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

1. Identify how you can conduct surveys to assess customer satisfaction. Discuss the various pieces of information that can be discovered through surveys and the guidelines for survey questions. Customer satisfaction is the primary objective of any business and surveys is one of the most relevant research tools to gauge the results. To be able to get the quality responses that can help in understanding the customer’s mood, it is imperative to create questions that can access, the consumers from a behavioral and psychological perspective. It is better to pretest the survey that will help in rechecking some ...

Data Methods & Sample Sizes

When determining the best qualitative methodology to use for assessing if consumers and businesses would be interested in its products, SpotOn will need to use an ethnographic study, and a phenomenological study. According to Sauro (2015), ethnographic studies are centered on understanding the overall motivations and goals of a specific environment (p.1). In effect, it allows the researcher to assess why people do what they do. As such, this will require individuals from SpoOn to engage customers throughout the area where they seek to sell their products (i.e. visits to Home Depot stores, demonstrations at their own stores, visits ...

Question 1- Answer

Types of Project Lifecycle The types of project life cycles are various as discussed by different scholars and researchers. These types of project life cycle include iterative, adaptive, incremental, agile, waterfall, etc. (Project Smart, n.d.). However, the study has found that it is very important to understand the importance of each type of project life cycle according to the nature of the project.

Uses of each type

The uses and benefits of each type of project life cycle are as follows (Project Smart, n.d.):

Iterative/ Incremental

The major purpose and objective of iterative product life cycle are to develop the incremental system. It is ...

Objectives

This research aims at establishing the effects of using social media as a tool for marketing in small businesses. The research seeks to address the benefits associated with using social media to market a business. If there are no benefits then what are the limitations? If there are both benefits and limitations, which one outweighs the other? From these questions, we can then deduce the general effect of social media as a business marketing tool (Churchill and Iacobucci, 2010).

Methods of Research

In conducting the research, a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of research will be used (Matthews and Ross, 2014). ...

Introduction

Quoting Marchetti, Ausubel states, “Successful societies are learning systems” (Ausubel, 1995). Organized social learning and the development of our society caused increased technological progress. Since 1400, the number of technological and scientific discoveries has dramatically increased (Appendix A). In the twentieth century, it continued its growth. It was the time of scientific and technological advances that significantly improved our living but at the same time caused environmental problems, as the creation of the internal combustion engine became one of the major reasons of the outpouring of greenhouse gases. In the twenty-first century, we have something to do with them. ...

Sociology is a complex field of study that looks at many different aspects of the world we live in. Sociologists may study society as a whole, or study the social lives of individuals, groups, and societies. They might also consider behavior of humans, from individual contacts with strangers, to the intricacies of global interactions. The study of sociology involves looking at how large groups interact with each other with an eye toward making everything equal. It also ties together several other disciplines such as history, psychology, and economics . Sociologists use three different methods to study society. This section looks ...

Abstract

The number of child delinquents has increased significantly within the last decade. It is a major cause for concern since these children tend to become serious, violent, and chronic offenders while in their teen years. Based on the observation, this study sought to answer the question of what are the effects of parental involvement on criminal outcomes in children. The participants of this study are college students with the history of delinquency. The research uses the survey method as the experimental approach, and the data collection uses the administration of a questionnaire. The study targets 500 participants in the ...

1. Aims of the Dissertation: Because of the global demand by customers for excellent services in the hospitality industry business operators need to quickly recruit employees who then receive limited preparation and training. This often results in poor job performance, employee dissatisfaction and high staff turnover. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the remote causes and outcomes of staff turnover that is endemic and a contentious issue in the hospitality industry. In this research, the author will attempt to address the operational challenges facing the hospitality business by identifying some causes in addition to those given above ...

Advanced quantitative methods in psychology are such methods that require the use of statistical methods for the measurements of the various psychological attributes of individuals. With these statistical measures, the analysis of human behaviour is done. These methods lay more emphasis on varying numerical analysis of data. It will be done through surveys, questionnaires or polls. It focuses on generalising data obtained from large groups of people. The data collected through quantitative methods are relatively structured. They are more inclined towards convergent thinking rather than divergent thinking. They represent the larger proportions of the population. Such methods have high ...

The notion of crime analysis is analyzed differently with diverse scholars. Nevertheless, all the defining factors have common features that unite the field. According to Sampson (2007), crime analysis is a key element in police agency since it makes use of information in the intelligence systematic methods. The major factor that play a big role in criminal detentions are first, crime study, that is, burglary, rape, robbery among others (Lemonick, 2007). Secondly, there are chaotic issues or problems that include suspicious activities, noise complaints, and thief alarms among others. Therefore, crime analysis presents a preventive measure and an understanding in a situation which ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that incarceration of parents is one of the greatest punishments children suffer when they are incarcerated from their parents. The additional challenges that come as a result of parental incarceration include material hardship and financial instability, instability in family relationships, poor educational results among children, and social problems such as stigma. Many a time, children of incarcerated parents are termed as the forgotten victims of imprisonment. Statistics show that there were 1.7 million children of incarcerated parents in the United States as of 2007 (Shlafer, Poehlmann, Coffino, & Hanneman, 2009. P. 508). Several million other children have ...

1) Describe how to formulate and test hypothesis about a population mean and/or a population.

A hypothesis essentially refers to the prediction of the expected outcome of a research process. When one intends to research a particular subject, event or outcome, he ought to state his expected outcome. There are two types of hypotheses; null and alternate hypotheses. The null hypothesis refers to what the researcher is trying to nullify, disapprove or reject. In testing the hypothesis, the researcher attempts to prove the hypothesis either wrong or right. In hypothesis testing, the researcher needs to first state both the null and alternate hypotheses. The researcher then needs develops an analysis plan which describes how to use ...

Answer 1)

Time Value of Money is an important concept in the world of finance. As per the principle, the value of money received today is more than the same amount of money to be received in some future date. In other words, as per the principle of Time Value of Money, money carries the power to earn interest. Thus, any amount of money is worth more the sooner it is received. For Instance, $100 invested at 10% rate of interest for 1 year will be $110 after the end of year. Similarly, if $100 is received after 1 year, this ...

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Introduction:

Mental health issues results from different sets of emotions, behaviors and thoughts that cause some level of distress among people. These mental issues are thought to be a consequence of collaboration between biological, social, genetic, and economic factors (MHCC, 2010). Psychotic disorder has an intense effect on an individual’s health. Though there are quite a few ways to describe the reasons for any medical situation of ...

The term corruption in the simplest and most basic sense refers to the abuse or misuse of the available public resources and amenities by few individuals so as to benefit their private needs and urges. It also refers to a state where the people elected in public places, and offices use their powers and privilege to enrich themselves with the public resources. And powers at the expense of the general public or a whole society. At the face value, major corruption scandals would involve instances and cases where the officers in the positions of authority take bribe and solicit other mutual ...

Article 1

Purpose of the Research: The article entitled “Beyond Qualitative – Quantitative Distinction: Some Innovative Methods for Business and Management Research” focuses on the mixed methods of research that applies to a number of popular approaches that simply exceed the quantitative – qualitative differences. In business and management researches, the mixed method designs provide sophisticated ideas with potential benefits for the research itself. The entire content of the article demonstrates the appropriateness, especially in the integrated mixed methods with objectives presented. Its primary significance contemplates the usage of the mixed methods research. These mixed methods research can access and interpret various issues ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to determine the deterrent effect of the death penalty or capital punishment in the commission of future crimes. Most of the criminal experts believe that the justification for the imposition of the death penalty against criminals should be for retributive grounds and to make the criminals suffer the consequences of their actions. Thus, when a person kills another, the retributive effect of capital punishment or the death penalty is take the life of the murderer (Radelet & Akers, 1996). The main reason for the imposition of the death penalty is to discourage the murderers to ...

Abstract

Data collection is vital for any aspect of any research study. However, inaccurate data collection can lead to poor results and ultimately be, a waste of time. There are two main strategies of data collection these include quantitative method and qualitative method. Quantitative data collection, relies on structured methodologies and random sampling. As a result of good quantitative method, research results are in many cases easy to generalize and summarize. In comparison, qualitative data collections are equally important in evaluating and establishing information needed to understand and assess changes in people’s needs and perceptions on smoking. These writing observes how ...

Although both studies are informative, the qualitative information provided by Saint et al. (2010) appears to be more difficult to understand than the quantitative information provided by Daud-Gallotti et al. (2012), most likely because of the differences in the nature of the data. Because qualitative information contains descriptive personal opinions from the participants, I find it difficult to use it for determining clinical practices based on that information. For example, it is mentioned that successful leaders were inspirational, but that does not provide the reader with sufficient guidelines to become inspirational. Quantitative information appears to be more objective, ...

Sustainable agriculture 1

Executive Summary: 3 Introduction 4 Goals and Objectives 5 Method Used 6 Key Trends: 6 Economic Trend 6 Culture and Social Trend 7 General Trends 8 Ecological Trend: 8 Agriculture 9 Data Analysis 9 Questionnaire Analysis: 10 Interview: 11 Focus Group Interview: 12 Data on Birds: 13 Recommendations 14 Limitations 15

References 16

Appendix: 17

Redberry Lake Biosphere Region has a historical background in terms of providing a place to live for migrating birds as well as offering the people of the area with preservation, facility building ...

Qualitative Research

Introduction The field of social sciences is primarily concerned with making sense of the world around us. The question of how to study the social world, however, unleashes a number of intense philosophical debates. These debates chiefly revolve around ‘ontological’ issues, denoting ‘what is there to know about the world’. Ontological debates concern themselves with questions about whether the social world contains truths independent of human observation or whether it is human interpretation that gives meaning to phenomena. Hidden in this debate is the tension between qualitative and quantitative research methods and the tension over the use of numbers ...

1. What are the various forecasting methods? Forecasting methods are divided into two broad categories of qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Qualitative methods of forecasting are judgment based, opinion based, intuition based, emotions based, or personal experience of the individual conducting the forecast. There is no mathematical element in qualitative forecasting. On the other hand, quantitative forecasting methods rely on mathematical computations and objectivity. Qualitative methods of forecasting include; executive opinion, market survey, sales force composite, and Delphi method. Quantitative methods include; time series models and associative models (Hamlett). 2. Who will do the forecasting? In a ...

Introduction

All human beings are creatures of habits, both good and bad and while our lifestyle can make us free from of rethinking everything that we are or want to do, anytime we do it, our way of life can also enslave us to doing things that can be very destructive to our life in the long run (Stroh, 2011). These habits can be very hard to deal with, even at point where we know we must, it is hard to avoid. Wealth of knowledge and experience in enhancing the quality of health care has accumulated globe over many decades. ...

Leadership and Workplace

Introduction Leadership is involves the diligence of duty in social influence and team work by an individual in accomplishment of a particular goal. From a psychological view, it varies much from the perennial understanding of being followed and providing guidelines and direction to others. This sets apart the terminology ‘leadership’ and ‘effective leadership’. While leadership could be mistaken for the feared boss roles with highhandedness and a stern persona, effective leadership focuses on the delivery, wellbeing and productivity of the team one leads. To understand these styles, there are numerous theories of leadership that have come up with time and all ...

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Abstract

The quantitative research is a data research of some hypothesis, which can be checked by using mathematical or statistical techniques. This means employing of some mathematical models and methods (performing calculations). These calculations are based on empirical observations given in a data set. This data has a numeric form. The qualitative research refers to understanding some phenomena (for example, human behavior) – how and why people do or think something. The quantitative methods are usually can support qualitative researches. The one of the most usual methods to collect the data for qualitative research is to ...

Qualitative research refers to a study that seeks to explore issues and understand phenomena using in depth interviews, focus groups, ethnography, evaluation, content analysis among other techniques. Qualitative research often relies on unstructured data such as literature reviews, open-ended responses, pictures and audio recordings. On the other hand, quantitative research refers to studies that involve empirical investigations to evaluate relationships between variables using mathematical and statistical techniques. Quantitative research often relies on numerical data. Mixed research methods combine both qualitative methods and quantitative methods. This paper seeks to explore why recently researchers use both quantitative and qualitative research designs in ...

Collection of data is an important process in getting information regarding certain issues that need to be analyzed and reasons behind the actions identified. When collecting data, the source of the data is an important determinant of the means one would use to collect the information. The use of questionnaires is becoming one of the best ways of collecting data especially from sources located far away from the one collecting the data. The use of questionnaires employs two modes of data collection, which are the quantitative and qualitative data. The choice of the person collecting the data to use ...

Introduction

Educational research is undertaken to generate knowledge. Its five objectives are “exploration” “description,” “ explanation,” “prediction,” and “influence” (Johnson & Christensen, nd). Among the many areas of educational research are quantitative research, qualitative research, mixed methods, and action research. These four areas will be discussed in this paper as well as the research process, and specific applications of these methodologies.

The Research Process

There are seven basic steps involved in conducting a research. These are (1) identifying the research problem, (2) review of literature, (3) specifying a purposes, (4) developing research questions, (5) collecting data, (6) analysis and interpretation of data, and (7) reporting the research ...

Problem Statement:

It is unknown whether stress-induced events precipitated by a working environment have been fundamental when it comes to determining job satisfaction for municipal police officers in small departments.

Research Question:

Are stress-induced events precipitated by a work environment related to job satisfaction for municipal police officers in small departments? Theory: Law enforcement has repeatedly been ranked as one of the most stressful jobs in the world. A combination of stress, administration, and equipment issues all contribute to an individual’s job satisfaction within the police force. In addition, shift work and public support will play an important role when it comes ...

Evaluating the effect on total quality management on road constructions in Nigeria

Introduction Research Methodology refers to the methods that adhere to an orderly sequence of data collection. It is a combination of various techniques used in collection of data for a particular research to accomplish and realize its objectives. This chapter therefore, describes the research methods, data collection tools, and their administration and the problems encountered during the research process (Nahid, 2003).

Research Design

The study utilized analytical exploratory research design trying to explore on the ways of achieve total quality anagement in ensuring organizational performance. The intensive exploration and investigation was on a case study of the road construction sites in Nigeria. It ...

The assessment and identification of the ideal location for manufacturing is critical for a variety of reasons. These decisions are long term, difficult to reverse and affect fixed and variable costs for companies .1 The identification of a specific location for a new organization takes place at 3 levels: identification of the region,the choice of the site within the region, dimensional analysis. 2. Once you have identified potential sites within a region you will need to zero in on the most efficient site for your particular operational set up. There are 5 most frequently used models for factor analysis: factor rating ...

Technical Applied Science: Using the Scientific Method

Problem Statement

In general commercial and non-commercial flights are the two main categories of aviation. Pilot age became a particularly controversial issue in 1959 when the Age-60 Rule was made by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Age Rule has been lifted to 65 years so pilot’s can continue to fly through their early 60s. All factors causing air accidents are seriously investigated. If age is not a factor then time could be better spent resolving the problems that are factors in air accidents. This proposal seeks to evaluate the literature in order to determine whether or not the age ...

DQ week two (1) and (2)

Applied research is defined as the scientific study together with the research that aims at providing solutions to practical problems. Applied research involves describing a particular individual or organization in-depth in an effort to understand the specific problem being investigated and to provide practical solutions if necessary. Applied research is only interested in a specific problem and not in making generalizations. Applied research is normally conducted by psychologists in the industrial and organizational fields. It is funded by private corporations who intend to solve specific problems in their organizations. Basic research is conducted with the objective of providing insight into a ...

Definition of scientific method

Bauer (1994) defines scientific method a systematic, controlled observation or experiment whose results leads to hypothesis, which can be valid or invalid through further work. In addition, the hypothesis results to the formulation of theories that may be reliable due to the critical approach that was used in the method. Information obtained from the scientific method can lead to classifying previously established data as false and open new avenues where further research is done.

Importance of Scientific Research

Through scientific research, new knowledge in various fields can be acquired. In addition, this knowledge can be used to establish standards of practice in the various ...

Quantitative Methods and Analysis

Abstract

Analyzing variables straight from raw data might be difficult to decipher, unless a technique in remodeling the data would be helpful in better understanding statistical data and that is through the use of regression analysis. This paper will show how to derived variables using methods applied on regression analysis. A good example of data that can be extracted with the use of regression analysis is the relation between job satisfaction among employees and their benefits. Measuring correlating variables would allow you to understand changes in dependent variable when either of the independent variables showed varied results. The principles of ...

Quantitative Research methods in statistics

The paper focuses on analyzing the use of research methods in Okello’s article “learning and Teaching college algebra at University level: Challenges and opportunities- A case study of USIU”, published in Journal of Language, Technology &entrepreneurship in Africa. Application of quantitative and qualitative methods in research (experimental and non experimental) studies is crucial for obtaining valid and reliable information. Quantitative methods or techniques lie within the interval estimation and hypothesis testing categories (Nadezhda , 2010). In interval estimation, statistics are used to estimate the interval for which the true parameter of a population lies from a representative sample. On the other ...

Introduction

Research in sociology is based on using empirical data to provide evidence or support the truth of concepts and theories and to test hypothesis. The methods of gathering data include: surveys, in-depth interviews, field research, document study, experiments and many others. Sociological research is grouped in to two major methodologies: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative methods look at social phenomena through evidence that can be measured and they often depend on the statistics of several cases to create claims that are valid and reliable. Qualitative design on the other hand looks at social phenomena through observing directly and communicating with ...