Opinto-opas

Osaamistavoitteet

After passing the course the student is able to:
· search and utilize scientific literature
· identify and describe the main research and development approaches and analysis methods
· choose and apply an appropriate methodology for his/her work
- choose a suitable software or programming environment for statistical analysis.
- use the basic functionality of the chosen environment.
- be aware of differences in data file formats and is able to open files for reading and writing.
- perform basic data cleansing e.g. to treat outliers and missing data.
- know the difference between data types.
- do basic sampling descriptive statistics
- graphically represent data.
- make linear fits and linear regression analysis.
- do statistical tests, Z-test, F-test and Student’s t-test

Sisältö

Basics of research
Qualitative and quantitative research methods
Start of the Master´s Thesis project