Online Courses Handbook 2003

304179 (v.2) Health Research Methods 481

Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Introduction to the scientific method, experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive, qualitative and epidemiological research. Measurement issues - questionnaire development, reliability and validity of data, issues of sampling and sample size. Ethics in research. Overview of descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, estimation and confidence intervals, discussion of parametric and non parametric statistical tests. Use of computers in data management.