Quantitative Analysis I

Course Code: RMRQAN_AS7

Masters Level Module

The first hour of each session will be held in a lecture room, followed by a 2-hour computer session. This course is for beginners in statistics. It provides a thorough grounding in the elementary process of data handling and an introduction to hypothesis testing and modelling of continuous data by regression. The following topics will be covered: - data presentation (using tables and charts); - summarising data (using statistics such as frequency, mean, variance, etc); - random sampling and sampling error; - hypothesis tests for continuous and categorical data; - modelling continuous data using simple linear regression; - multiple linear regression including categorical covariates and interaction effects. The package SPSS for Windows will be used, but no prior familiarity with this or any other computer packages will be assumed.