Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis

The four credit unit course is designed to help PhD students embarking on research to understand the principles and practical application of statistics for analysis of research data. The course revisits standard statistical techniques together with a comprehensive hands on illustration of their application using a standard statistical package (e.g. STATA). By the close of the course, students are expected to have acquired the ability to choose the appropriate statistical technique(s) to use for the type of data to be collected as well as correct interpretation of the results.