spring 2018
HEL-8024 Quantitative Research Methods - 3 ECTS
Admission requirements
PhD students, students at a Student Research Program or holders of a Norwegian master´s degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted.
PhD students from other universities must upload a document from their home institution stating that there are registered PhD students. This group of applicants does not have to prove English proficiency and are exempt from semester fee.
Holders of a Master´s degree must upload a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. Applicants from listed countries must document proficiency in English.
Proficiency in English must be documented - list of countries
For more information on accepted English proficiency tests and scores, as well as exemptions from the English proficiency tests, please see the following document:
Proficiency in english - PhD level studies
It is recommended that you take this course early in your PhD study and after having taken HEL-8010.
Course content
The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to basic concepts in statistics and the theoretical foundations for basic statistics that are relevant across most branches of the health sciences. The objective is to introduce the students to descriptive statistics e. g. central tendency and dispersion as well as to inferential statistics based on probability distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and scientific study designs. Furthermore, the course teaches t-test, correlation analysis and basics for regression analyses.Objectives of the course
Knowledge
By the end of this course, the candidate has knowledge that enables him/her to:
- organize the basic concepts in statistics, such as central tendency and variance and be able to discuss their theoretical foundations
- be able to judge types of probability distributions
- be able to organize different study designs
- discuss the concept of a confidence interval
- discuss the principle behind a significance test
- is able to check the assumptions for performing t-tests
skills and competence
By the end of this course, the candidate has skills that enables him/her to:
- conduct a hypothesis test comparing two means (t-test)
- carrying out a correlation/partial correlation analysis and reporting the results according to publication standards, and interpreting the results
- perform simple regression analyses
- report the results of a statistical analysis according to publication standards
- to calculate effect sizes and p values
Teaching methods
The course consists of four full teaching days and combines introductory lectures with exercises/examples for group work or plenary discussions. A high degree of participant involvement and activity is expected.
The topics for the four days will be:
Day 1: Variables and research/study design
Day 2: Descriptive statistics, probability, sampling and distributions
Day 3: Correlations/partial correlations and regression
Day 4: Hypothesis testing and significance testing, t-test
Error rendering component
- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 3
- Course code: HEL-8024
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for psykologi
- Tilleggsinformasjon
- PhD students at UiT
- External applicants
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