quantitative evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofquantitativeandevidence
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quantitative
adjective
uk/ˈkwɒn.tɪ.tə.tɪv/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
relating to numbers ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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Thequantitativeevidencedoes not, however, give a very 'rich' picture of the 'reasoning' that respondents employ in these preference elicitation exercises.
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This then is one clear case in whichquantitativeevidenceplays an important role.
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Quantitativeevidenceon the preferences of women for alternative screening programs is limited; this study, therefore, elicits such preferences.
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We provide additional narrative andquantitativeevidenceagainst capture and rent-seeking accounts below.
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Considerable qualitative and somequantitativeevidenceexists to suggest that children in such families were relatively deprived.
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Despite its popularity, there exists mainly anecdotal, but little systematicquantitativeevidencesupporting the hypothesis.
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Her argument, which at times relies heavily on anecdotal evidence, would have been strengthened by the addition ofquantitativeevidence.
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The present study was designed to providequantitativeevidenceon the role of children's own names in their early spelling.
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We will now present furtherquantitativeevidenceon this issue.
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In chapter one, 'the paucity of reliablequantitativeevidence' (p. 11) is identified as a key obstacle.
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Quantitativeevidenceis only part of the picture when it comes to incidental acquisition of vocabulary from natural sources, however.
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Some ' vignettes ', pen pictures or reports of what people said would have been helpful additions to thequantitativeevidence.
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However, empirical tests of their relative explanatory power usingquantitativeevidencehave been in short supply.
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There isquantitativeevidencethat giving does indeed reflect the relative need of recipients.
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We hypothesize that the acquisition of marked or complex phenomena requires a certain amount ofquantitativeevidence.
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The surviving household listings from this period give usquantitativeevidenceon eighteenth-century families.
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Directquantitativeevidenceis difficult to obtain, especially among pre-twentieth-century populations.
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Butquantitativeevidenceis not the whole story : mere numbers tell us something, but they do not tell us a lot.
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It providesquantitativeevidencethat vowel epenthesis applies categorically in some environments and variably in others.
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