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Unit of Study STAT4004 - Data Analysis (2024)

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  • Unit type

    Hons Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Develops students’ data and statistical analysis knowledge and skills for research. Students will learn about the analysis and representation of quantitative research, inferential analyses using standard statistical software, and how research can integrate quantitative and qualitative data using mixed methods approaches.

Unit content

  1. Qualitative research – assumptions and analyses
  2. Qualitative research – interpreting and presenting findings
  3. Inferential statistics – prediction and relationships
  4. Inferential statistics – comparing several means
  5. Inferential statistics – repeated-measures
  6. Integrating quantitative and qualitative data

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Location Domestic International
Online
Term3
Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

select appropriate data and statistical analyses to answer a research question

conduct quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods data analysis

interpret quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods data analysis

Prescribed learning resources

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