9319 (v.10) Principles of Research 381

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	8420 (v.8) Professional Practice (Community) 284 or any previous version AND 304647 (v.2) Built Environment 383 or any previous version AND 304656 (v.1) Food Science Specialisation 202 or any previous version AND 304714 (v.2) Environmental Health Microbiology 232 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Research methods and designs; interference and causation; review of descriptive and analytical epidemiological, clinical, animal, cellular and molecular studies. Strategic, targeted research priorities. Review of descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, estimation and confidence intervals, parametric analysis, correlation coefficients and statistical software application. Formulation, development and preparation of a research proposal.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010103 Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External