BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Quantitative Analysis
- the appraisal of a project or investment using econometric, mathematical, and statistical techniques.
- See also Technical Analysis
Additional Resources
- Numerical Analysis in the Financial Industry: Analysis Challenges in Finance and How the IMSL Family of Products Delivers Solutions
- The financial services industry is concerned with the analysis of capital flows over time in the presence of risk. The combination of a dynamic global marketplace and improving computational capabilities has resulted in a greater reliance on advanced quantitative techniques in the financial services industry. Quantitative analysts developing financial applications...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- e.soft - Cedars: Quantitative Evaluation of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
- e.soft provides quantitative evaluation and display of 2-D and 3-D Gated Myocardial Perfusion data using Quantitative Gated SPECT QGS, evaluation and display of Static Stress and Rest Myocardial Perfusion using Quantitative Perfusion SPECT QPS and analysis and display of Gated Bloodpool data using Quantitative Bloodpool SPECT QBS. The Cedars Quantitative...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Business Intelligence: The Text Analysis Strategy
- Business Intelligence BI solutions typically offer the ability to analyze quantitative data and produce information that monitors business performance. The analyses may be summaries or drill downs that present details on subsets of data. More broadly, business intelligence can include any information, such as articles and reports, that offers insights...
- White papers 2006-10-27
- Let Me Count the Words
- This article examines the use of both qualitative and quantitative data for better understanding of hospitality industry. With the available data gathering and analysis software, hospitality business analysts can make guests' open-ended comments more meaningful to management and provide a richer and deeper understanding of the guests' experience. By "quantifying"...
- White papers 2004-09-15
- A Quantitative Framework for Commercial Property and its Relationship to the Analysis of the Financial Stability of the Corporate Sector
- This paper develops a quantitative framework for analysis of the UK commercial property sector and the possible implications for the financial stability of this sector, and for the corporate sector as a whole. There is little previous empirical literature. But where there is, models have either studied particular markets or...
- White papers 2003-11-18
- Incorporating Gender Into the Quantitative Analysis of Macro-Poverty Links
- This paper examines how gender issues are addressed in current analyses of macro-poverty links. Among CGE models, if gender-based issues are modeled at all, they tend to be secondary in importance and often added as a special device to a standard model. However, new studies are emerging that specify more...
- White papers 2003-10-14
- Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Geometry of Individual Multiple Sclerosis Lesions: Detection of Shape Changes Over Time Using Spherical Harmonics
- The purpose of this paper is to suggest a quantitative method for assessing the temporal changes in the geometry of individual multiple sclerosis MS lesions in follow-up studies of MS patients. The paper concludes that the Quantitative three-dimensional shape analysis can serve as a new tool for monitoring MS lesion...
- White papers 2003-08-11
- Quantitative Risk Analysis for Project Management: A Critical Review
- This paper is the final report of the RAND Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project "Risk Management and Risk Analysis for Complex Projects: Developing a Research Agenda." The aim of the project was to survey how quantitative risk management and risk analysis methods were applied to the planning and execution...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Technical Analysis
- Technical analysis is based on an examination of the price and volume movements of individual stocks, sectors, or the market as a whole. By charting historic information the technical analyst is searching for clues as to what direction the market, sector or stock will move next. Distinctive patterns emerge in...
- White papers
- Value Analysis Calculator for Product/Service
- This template is used to create a quantitative analysis of the bottom-line impact that the product or service will have on the customer's business. The template will help one to generate figures such as breakeven point and ROI.
- Tools & templates 2003-11-12
- Balanced Scorecards and GQM: What Are the Differences?
- This paper compares two quantitative approaches recommended for developing and supporting software process improvements, that is, the Goal-Question-Metric GQM technique and the Balanced Scorecard BSc framework. While both offer the opportunity to implement a quantitative analysis of software projects, they are often misinterpreted as either interchangeable or, on the contrary,...
- White papers 2000-10-23
- Hedge Funds Investing: A Quantitative Look Inside the Black Box
- There is an increasing amount of evidence that shows the benefits of considering hedge funds as an asset class at the strategic asset allocation level. The investors' greatest challenge remains the identification of desirable investment vehicles, since very little formal quantitative analysis of hedge funds has been done in the...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Rapid, Single-Tube Method for Quantitative Preparation and Analysis of RNA and DNA in Samples as Small as One Cell
- This paper introduces a novel and highly reliable single-tube method for rapid cell lysis, followed by quantitative preparation and analysis of both RNA and/or DNA molecules in small samples. In contrast to previous approaches, this procedure allows all steps to be carried out by sequential dilution in a single tube,...
- White papers 2005-01-13
- Quantitative Research Overview
- The term quantitative research covers a range of techniques that can be used to quantify with some statistical confidence categories, evaluations, opinions and attitudes that potential or current customers bring to any market. This article overviews that quantitative research usually involves administering a pre-scripted questionnaire to hundreds or thousands of...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- The Advantages of Investing in Aggressive Companies
- One often hears about the importance of picking a company by means of quantitative analysis, which evaluates balance sheets and numbers. But qualitative analysis, which involves looking at intangible elements of companies - their personalities is also a good way to evaluate the superiority of an investment. Surprisingly, some of...
- White papers 2003-07-25
- Syngo MI Applications - Cedars: Quantitative Evaluation of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
- Cedars provides multiple 2D and 3D surface displays for volumetric visualization and is used for SPECT and PET assessment of myocardial perfusion and viability. It analyzes and quantifies gated stress myocardial perfusion using Quantitative Gated SPECT QGS and evaluates and displays stress and rest myocardial perfusion using Quantitative Perfusion SPECT...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Standardisation of Data From Real-Time Quantitative PCR Methods - Evaluation of Outliers and Comparison of Calibration Curves
- As real-time quantitative PCR (RT-QPCR) is increasingly being relied upon for the enforcement of legislation and regulations dependent upon the trace detection of DNA, focus has increased on the quality issues related to the technique. The past work has focused on the identification of factors that contribute towards significant measurement...
- White papers 2005-12-07
- Validation Methodologies for Default Risk Models
- The Basle Committee has identified credit model validation as one of the most challenging issues in quantitative credit model development. The benefits of implementing and using quantitative risk models cannot be fully realised without an understanding of how accurately any given model represents the dynamics of credit risk. This makes...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Deformable Organisms for Automatic Medical Image Analysis
- This paper introduces a new approach to medical image analysis that combines deformable model methodologies with concepts from the field of artificial life. In particular, it proposes 'deformable organisms', autonomous agents whose task is the automatic segmentation, labeling, and quantitative analysis of anatomical structures in medical images. Analogous to natural...
- White papers 2002-09-12
- Quantitative Analysis of MRI Signal Abnormalities of Brain White Matter With High Reproducibility and Accuracy
- The purpose of this paper is to assess the reproducibility and accuracy compared to radiologists of three automated segmentation pipelines for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging MRI measurement of brain white matter signal abnormalities WMSA. The addition of TDS to the EM segmentation and PVEC algorithms significantly improved the accuracy of...
- White papers 2002-01-23
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