INF 391F: Advanced Topics in Research Methods, Methodologies, and Design: Quantitative Research Methods

Fall Term 2022
Mode: In Person
Program: PhD Only
Unique ID
28675
Day Start End Building Room
  • Thursday
  • 12:30 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • UTA
  • 1.504

Catalog Description

This course starts by discussing broad landscape of epistemological and theoretical perspectives

Instructor Description

This course starts by discussing broad landscape of epistemological and theoretical perspectives and styles of reasoning and by situating in it quantitative research. It introduces you to the foundational concepts in quantitative research methods, such as causality, conceptualization, operationalization, measurement and sampling. It presents experimental design, survey design, and basic descriptive and inferential (frequentist) statistics, as well as a brief introduction to Bayesian inference and statistics.

Prerequisites

Graduate standing.

Restrictions

Restricted to doctoral students in the School of Information.