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Quantitative Research

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Investigating AI Readiness in the Maltese Public Administration

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Quantitative research is a collection of approaches for conducting systematic studies of social issues using numerical data; thus, the approach requires the quantification and measurement of the subject being assessed (Watson in Nurs Stand 29:1–7, 2015).

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Sciberras, M., Dingli, A. (2023). Quantitative Research. In: Investigating AI Readiness in the Maltese Public Administration. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 568. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19900-4_11

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