Aleks Collingwood is a policy and research manager (statistics and quantitative specialist) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
Through the online survey, we collected quantitative data about specialists and self-contained teachers' planning time for their mathematics and science instruction.
Pivotal roles were those of leadership (Group Controller, Volcanic Section Manager), those responsible for more quantitative tasks (Ash Specialist), and for the communication links or liaisons between the teams (Public Information Managers, Infrastructure Manager and the Duty Manager).
Now, actuaries also work as risk managers, quantitative analysts, or investment specialists.
We have recruited three postdoctoral workers (quantitative, qualitative and GIS specialists) and two fieldworkers.
Researchers included specialists in quantitative and qualitative research, clinicians, social scientists, epidemiologists and statisticians.
For specialist users, quantitative forecasts (g/m2) of ash fall will be provided as numerical data at the JMA website.
According to one science specialist, this task providing quantitative and qualitative assessment data for so many students—led to the change to pass/fail science scores in the district implementing this model.
Rangeland management as a discipline, observing alteration in forage, land cover and land use, is dependent upon the judgement and experience of field specialists and less on quantitative methods (Booth and Tueller 2003; West 2003).
Philippe Cialdella, a specialist of methodology and quantitative analysis in psychiatry, exposes an counter-argument in 10 points and brings welcome clarifications on the methodology and statistics.
