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Course Description:
This course is designed to a) introduce gradate level students to quantitative statistical methods b) to form foundations for more advanced courses, and c) to apply statistical methods to research problems encountered in nursing.
The course will cover fundamentals of research design, univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics, an introduction to sampling, t-test, analysis of variance and regression, non-parametric analyses and Chi-square. Students will also learn to use SPSS software.
At the end of the course, students will be able to define and use the descriptive and inferential statistics taught in this course, to analyze real data, present the data in a format suitable for peer-reviewed publication, and to interpret the analytical results.
Some of the course materials are based on free online OpenCourseWare (OCW) provided by MIT. We adhere to ptivacy and terms of use listed by MIT OCW which are available at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm\\
