title: [Numbers are also words].
abstract: The author, leaving aside his development as a statistician, opens up to other proposals, reviewing some studies about qualitative research methodology as related to health sciences. He concludes that qualitative research complements quantitative research and that a subjective element exists in both: numbers are also words because behind numbers there is a reflexive process and a human interpretation.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, EUE, Universidad de Alicante.
authors.forename: Joaquin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moncho Vasallo
mesh_terms: D036301:Qualitative Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods