QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN

13 May 2020, 15:00 → 15 May 2020, 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Who should attend: Everyone considering quantitative research using the questionnaire as an instrument including lecturers, students, as well as other quantitative researchers.

 

“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished, is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” This quote is from Ronald A. Fisher a famous Statistician.

 

The goal of this course is to help prepare the researcher/student with the design of a research project to ensure that the research design, sampling and questionnaire is done in such a way that the statistical analysis of the results may be optimized.

 

Research design, questionnaire design, sampling and other related issues for quantitative research will be discussed.