ME-626 General Quantitative Research Methods

Emnet er tilknyttet følgende studieprogram

• Ph.d.-program i helse- og idrettsvitenskap

Anbefalte forkunnskaper

EX-602 Philosophy of Science

Innhold

• Research designs

• Population and research sample

• Descriptive statistics; central tendency and dispersion tendency, level of measurements, statistical distributions

• Comparison of two or more groups (t-tests (independent samples and paired samples), One-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Chi-Square)

• Association between variables (Pearson´s correlation coefficient, Spearman rank correlations, simple linear regression)

Læringsutbytte

On successful completion of the course, the candidate has:

Knowledge about

• different types of recruitment procedures and randomization types

• the assumptions of basic statistical analysis including simple linear regression analysis

• strengths and limitations with respect to different quantitative research designs

 

Skills

• can plan, conduct and evaluate different types of recruitment procedures and randomization types

• can present descriptive statistics

• can plan, conduct, interpret and evaluate results from basic statistical analysis including simple linear regression analysis

 

General competence

• have an overview of different types of study designs and can independently plan, analyze, and interpret own and others results from basic statistical analysis

Vilkår for å gå opp til eksamen

Participation in compulsory lectures as stated in the course pamphlet.

Undervisnings- og læringsformer

Lectures combined with practical statistical exercises in a computer lab. Examples of analysis of data may be connected to the faculty’s on-going or planned research projects.

Eksamen

Individual 14-days home examination. The examination will be assessed as pass/fail.