Statistics and Research Methods: an Introduction

During this basic introductory course in research methodology and statistical analyses you'll cover a variety of topics.

This is a theory-led course, but you'll be given plenty of opportunities to apply the concepts via practical and interactive activities integrated throughout.

The topics covered include:

• Introduction to quantitative research
• Research question development
• Study design, sampling and confounding
• Types of data
• Graphical displays of data and results
• Summarising numeric and categorical data
• Numeric and categorical differences between groups
• Hypothesis testing
• Confidence intervals and p-values
• Parametric statistical tests
• Non-parametric tests
• Bootstrapping
• Regression analysis