ME-626 General Quantitative Research Methods (Autumn 2020)

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

• 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)