NURS 851 INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS FOR NURSING RESEARCH
This course is designed to provide an introduction to concepts and applied skills that can be used when conducting statistical analyses in nursing research. The course focuses on: 1) the identification and uses of appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics; 2) the acquisition of data manipulation skills necessary to conduct nursing research; 3) the development of understanding of concepts such as scales of measurement, probability, normal distribution, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing; and (4) applying parametric and non-parametric analysis approaches using examples. The procedures for compiling data, developing a research file, and documenting the file will be addressed and students will exercise analytical writing and data summary skills. Analytic techniques address descriptive statistics, measures of association, ANOVA, t-tests, and non-parametric techniques.
Offered
202009