How to Use quantitative analysis in a Sentence

quantitative analysis

noun
  • Part of this is due to the fact that, at its heart, this is a quantitative analysis of human behavior, the sort of study that's handled by a lot of journals.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 June 2020
  • The company has a quantitative analysis of how well that person might fit in.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • Using the rat remains for quantitative analysis means that, in locations like these islands, the record can provide hard data about the deep past and show changes across longer periods of time.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 7 June 2018
  • Boehmig started his career as a bond trader for Lehman Brothers, where he was exposed to the growing use of code to do quantitative analysis on financial data.
    Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Your book is getting a lot of attention for trying to do something new: assign quantitative analysis to culture.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Those with long memories also remember the quantitative analyses that underpinned the hot new asset classes of the past, from dot-com stocks to securitized art.
    Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Ruffini is an expert in quantitative analysis, but readers with no knowledge of polling or statistics will be able to follow his arguments with ease.
    George Hawley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • TrueBridge will run a quantitative analysis of all companies based on the information in the nominations, and Forbes reporters will be in touch with all finalists.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • As one of the first hedge funds to embrace quantitative analysis, Bridgewater bases almost all of its trades on algorithms derived from decades of market observations.
    Alexandra Stevenson and Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Yet by the 1960s, visiting firefly researchers confirmed through quantitative analysis what local boatmen in mangrove swamps had long known.
    Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Decisions must be made based on a thorough quantitative analysis.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Despite the fact that VC firms often invest in startups with a strong focus on AI and data science, relatively few use data and quantitative analysis of non-financial data as a guide to whether to invest.
    Tom Davenport, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • The machine was birthed during the height of America’s struggle for global ascendancy, amid a surge of interest from the political class in quantitative analysis.
    J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • John Williams, the Royals’ senior director for quantitative analysis, and baseball operations assistant Michael Cifuentes had preached the benefits of shifting the infield alignment to limit base hits for years.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Page and his colleagues wanted to do a quantitative analysis of political inequality.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Machines are expected to displace about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world over the next decade, according to a recent report from Oxford Economics, a global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 July 2019
  • The company also offers quantitative analysis through bespoke surveys of its experts.
    David Prosser, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Machines are expected to displace about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world over the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday by Oxford Economics, a global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm.
    Anneken Tappe, CNN, 25 June 2019
  • The gift will be used to renovate and purchase new equipment for the university's introductory chemistry lab, its quantitative analysis and instrumental analysis lab, and its organic lab, according to a news release.
    Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Now the faculty at Korbel will spend the second year doing more original quantitative analysis to explore the relationship between structural imbalance and the onset of instability.
    Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Jane Beule: More and more indications are surfacing that a truly successful, satisfying retirement lifestyle needs to embrace more than quantitative analysis.
    Larry Light, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Any quantitative analysis rests on assumptions, and researchers within a particular field often disagree amongst themselves about what assumptions, methods and results are defensible.
    Anthony Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The availability of plentiful data generated by the financial industry make these systems amenable to quantitative analysis.
    Standish Fleming, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The monophyly of these troglomorphic scorpions has never been rigorously tested, nor has their phylogeny been investigated in a quantitative analysis.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2010
  • Players will be able to choose from multiple different classes throughout the degree, including business planning, economics, management strategy and quantitative analysis.
    Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2023
  • Business-analytics software enables companies to parse past and current data by applying statistical analysis, data mining and quantitative analysis to spot trends.
    Angus Loten, WSJ, 6 June 2019
  • Formal quantitative analysis supplemented by qualitative knowledge trumps quantitative analysis alone.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2012

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