UPL604 ETHICS IN RESEARCH AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Course Content
This course ensures that students gain knowledge, awareness and sensitivity on basis ethical principals in social research and demonstrates the ways in which research and statistical ethics are related. The course also extends student knowledge of the statistics commonly used in social sciences. Specifically, the course covers: ethics, principal of research ethics, ethics in statistics, basic statistical concepts, descriptive statistics and organization of quantitative data, theoretical distributions, sampling distributions, basic research designs, basic sampling methods, hypothesis tests, measures of association, linear regression analysis.
