"quantitative means" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a methodology or a set of tools used to collect or measure data or information. For example: The researchers used quantitative means to gather information on current student attitudes.
More importantly, it will allow a quantitative means of extrapolating uncertainties in LEO to free space.
A quantitative means of assessing hydrologic recovery to harvesting is also developed.
It also affords a quantitative means of testing hierarchical and multiscale models of cortical activity.
Really, what sort of a critic do you think I am? Certainly not one who resorts to nonverbal, quantitative means of expressing opinions.
It thus fosters geomorphological analysis by visual and quantitative means, allowing delineation of landforms down to footprints of ~ 30 m.
The structural fitting therefore provides a quantitative means to further examine the architecture and organization of large, complex assemblies.
This concept inventory provides a quantitative means to predict areas in which course development can be focused.
The reduced model is validated using qualitative and quantitative means and also from the occurrence of bifurcations.
One quantitative means of measuring stellar colours involves a comparison of the yellow (visual) magnitude of the star with its magnitude measured through a blue filter.
Though altmetrics currently share many of the same limitations of citations making them poor choices for a quantitative means for understanding true research impact these drawbacks are not immutable.
These types of experiments provide quantitative means for studying microbial dispersal across simulated soil aggregates, and could help answer fundamental questions in ecology such as the factors driving the maintenance of metapopulations by habitat heterogeneity (Keymer et al., 2006).
