Research Methodology 2

About the courseThe course Research methodology 2 is designed to cover the bio-statistics and scientific communication. This includes hands on training in R / SPSS. It is a 4 credit course. It is offered for PhD and MD students.

Course Syllabus

Unit 1. Methods of Comparing means (20hours)

· One sample t test,

· Paired samples t test,

· Independent samples t – test

· Theory of each test, assumptions, running the test in R/ SPSS, writing the results

· Introduction to R / SPSS

· Post hoc power analysis using G power

Unit 2. Regression Analysis (10 hours)

• Simple linear regression

• Multiple regression

Unit 3. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (10 hours)

• One-Way ANOVA

• Two way ANOVA

• Repeated-Measures ANOVA

• Introduction to ANCOVA

Unit 4. Chi-Square tests (10 hours)

• Chi-Square test of Goodness-of-Fit

• Chi-Square Test of Independence

Unit 5. Non Parametric Tests (10 hours)

· Mann-Whitney U

· Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test

· Kruskal-Wallis Test

· Friedman Test

Reference Book

• Zar, J. H., & Zar. (1999). Biostatistical Analysis. Pearson Education. New Delhi

• C R Kothari. (2009). Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age International (P) Ltd. New Delhi

• Andy Field. (2005). Discovering statistics using SPSS/ R. SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.