Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics, University College London

Description

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental aspects of research methods and statistics. From study design, data types, and graphs, through to choice and interpretation of statistical tests, with particular focus on standard errors, confidence intervals and p-values.

The following topics are covered:

- 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

Period	9 May 2022 → 13 May 2022
Event type	Course