HD 5514: Research Methods (CRN: 85161)
Lecture (Graduate), Virginia Tech, Human Development and Family Science, 2019
Course Description: Introductory course in research methodology for the social sciences: formulation of a research problem, design, sampling, data collection, measurement, data analysis, interpretation, and writing the research report.
Schedule
W1: Course Overivew & Exploring Statistics
W2: Producing Data
W3: Distributions
W4: Relationships
W5 & W6: Probability
W7: Inference for Proportion
W8: Inference for Means
W9: Midterm Exam
W10: Use of Inference
W11: Analysis of Two-Way Tables (R & HW7)
W12: Inference for Regression (R & HW8)
W13: Multiple Regression (R & HW9)
W14: Thanksgiving
W15: One-Way Analysis of Variance (R & HW10)
W16: Two-Way Analysis of Variance
W17: Final Exam