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As I’m writing my final words within a research paper, I was curious regarding the term quantification of results.
Namely I’ve performed a correlation analysis in a quasi-experiment. The research is quantitative and purely related to software engineering.
My findings were that the two measured variables do correlate. Now, before I start getting into anything, what exactly specifies quantifying results of e.g. this correlation analysis?
There are two ways to report your findings: Qualitatively and Quantitatively.
Qualitatively is just using words. So you could say "we see good correlation between the datasets in the two experiments, but experiment A shows a slight bias at small time."
Quantitative analysis uses numbers. You could say instead "Correlation analysis shows both datasets are correlated with p < 0.05. Experiment A shows a bias of 0.1 at times less than one hour, and the correlation coefficient of both datasets using partial data fitting (I just made that up) is 0.13 with a t-critical value of 0.2.
