Assignment task: Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research - Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references:
1. Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
2. Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach
3. Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
4. Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
5. Communicate how this research design used in research.