647 Statistics
Content
Vital role of statistics in empirical research
- Problem solving, asking research questions, inductive, deductive researching
- Entities and their properties – variables
- How and where to acquire data for empirical researching, how to present statistical data
Analysis of relationships between variables
- Relationships between variables as a key to statistical prediction, how to detect and illustrate relationship between variables
- How to predict and control the values of variables
Techniques for studying relationships between variables
- An overview of the techniques for studying relationships between variables
- Techniques for illustrating relationships between variables
- The analysis of single variable
- Sampling and estimation
- Hypothesis testing
- Techniques for detecting relationships between variables
- Techniques for predicting and controlling the values of variables
Objectives and competences
Student:
- defines problem, asks empirical research questions, prepares, and processes statistical research,
- uses computational technology and statistical tools for gathering, analysing and presenting statistical data and results of empirical research
- uses descriptive statistical techniques for single variable analysis,
- prepares sampling process, calculates the values of sample parameters and estimates the values of population parameters,
- forms hypothesis, chooses and uses suitable hypothesis testing technique,
- analyses and reports relationships between variables, predicts and controls values of variables in relationship,
- relates the discovered statistical phenomena to the practical situation in public sector.
Student is qualified:
- to examine numerical data to grasp issues, draw conclusions, and solve problems;
- to use statistical techniques to analyse data and solve practical problems;
- to perceive, understand and resolve challenges, solvable with statistical approach;
- to identify, collect, and organize data for statistical research and value based decision-making;
- to use IT equipment and statistical tools to proceed statistical research and create reports and presentation;
- to grasp the meaning of statistical information, and apply it to situations at hand;
- to convey the results of statistical research using presentation of statistical information.