{"id":11,"date":"2020-08-22T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:04:53","slug":"introduction-to-quantification-and-its-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/physical-geography\/introduction-to-quantification-and-its-approaches\/11","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Quantification and its Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quantification is a mean to bring precision in any scientific inquiry. Its use in geography has given new<\/span><\/p>\n

dimensions to geographic research and has played a significant role in the development of the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quantification is an approach in the observation of a phenomenon. We can observe a phenomenon<\/span><\/p>\n

qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Whereas research mostly concludes in qualitative terms,<\/span><\/p>\n

quantification helps us in arriving at these conclusions objectively.<\/span><\/p>\n


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There are two main approaches in Quantitative analysis; <\/span><\/p>\n


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(1) Mathematical and (2) statistical<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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Mathematical methods<\/span><\/h2>\n

 Mathematical methods includes those tools and techniques, like<\/span><\/p>\n

algebra, geometry, calculus and matrices etc., which are suitable to the phenomenon where<\/span><\/p>\n

the responses are exact in nature. Such responses are mainly found in the laboratory<\/span><\/p>\n

experiments of natural sciences. Since these responses are exact in nature a single<\/span><\/p>\n

experimental trial is sufficient to get the result. For example, if we are interested in finding<\/span><\/p>\n

out the specific heat of cupper (calories of heat require to raise the temperature one gram of<\/span><\/p>\n

the metal by one degree centigrade), we can carry out an experiment once and take the<\/span><\/p>\n

reading to get the result. Only one response is sufficient to get the result. There is no need of<\/span><\/p>\n

repeating this experiment due to the fact that any repetition will give the identical results,<\/span><\/p>\n

either today, tomorrow or at any other place.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Statistical Methods<\/span><\/h2>\n

Statistical methods, which are based on principle aggregation, on the<\/span><\/p>\n

contrary are suitable to the phenomenon where the responses are not exact in nature. Such<\/span><\/p>\n

phenomenon are mainly found in social and behavioural sciences where human being are the<\/span><\/p>\n

respondents. In social sciences if we observe a phenomenon repeatedly, it may not give identical results. Every response will differ from the other marginally. Reason being that<\/span><\/p>\n

human responses do not work like machines of the laboratory. Human responses follow social<\/span><\/p>\n

laws which are superimposed by some behavioural elements also. Whereas the response of a<\/span><\/p>\n

social force may be identical for all the similar people in the society, the behavioural response<\/span><\/p>\n

vary from individual to individual, causing an element of error in the responses. No single<\/span><\/p>\n

response, therefore, give the accurate results and tools of mathematical methods of analysis<\/span><\/p>\n

do not help due to the presence of this element of error term. Statistical methods help us in<\/span><\/p>\n

finding out the underlying correct response by minimizing the error with the help of theory of<\/span><\/p>\n

aggregation.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Quantification is a mean to bring precision in any scientific inquiry. Its use in geography has given new dimensions to geographic research and has played a significant role in the development of the subject. Quantification is an approach in the observation of a phenomenon. We can observe a phenomenon qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Whereas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physical-geography","category-quantitative-techniques"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/geo.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhijeetpandey.in\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}