UNIT-I
Research: Meaning – Purpose-Types of research-significance of research in Social and business sciences. Steps in Research: Identification, selection and formulation of research problem Research questions-Research design-Formulation of hypothesis-Review of literature.
UNIT-II
Data for Research: Primary data-Meaning-Collection methods-Observation – Interview Questionnaire-Schedule-Pretest-Pilot study –Experimental and case studies-Secondary data Meaning – Relevance, limitations and cautions. , measurement scales – types and construction of scales and reliability and validity aspects in measurement, sampling and sampling techniques.
UNIT-III
Processing Data: Checking-Editing-Coding-transcriptions and Tabulation-Data analysis Meaning and methods-Quantitative and Qualitative analysis. Structuring the Report: Chapter format-Pagination-Identification-Using Quotations-Presenting footnotes – abbreviations Presentation of tables and figures Referencing-Documentation-Use and format of appendices Indexing.
UNIT-IV
Statistics in Research: Specific applications of measures of Central tendency, Dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis in research. Measures of Relationship: Correlation – Simple, Partial and multiple-Regression-Simple and multiple-Association of Attributes – applications in research.
UNIT-V
Hypothesis Testing : Fundamentals of hypothesis testing-Important non-parametric tests: Sign, Run test, Kruskal-Wallis tests and Mann – Whitney test.
UNIT-VI
Parametric Tests: Testing of significance mean, proportion, variance and correlation-Testing for significance of difference between means, proportions, variances and correlation coefficients. ANOVA-One-way and two-way,Chi-Square Tests.
Research: Meaning – Purpose-Types of research-significance of research in Social and business sciences. Steps in Research: Identification, selection and formulation of research problem Research questions-Research design-Formulation of hypothesis-Review of literature.
UNIT-II
Data for Research: Primary data-Meaning-Collection methods-Observation – Interview Questionnaire-Schedule-Pretest-Pilot study –Experimental and case studies-Secondary data Meaning – Relevance, limitations and cautions. , measurement scales – types and construction of scales and reliability and validity aspects in measurement, sampling and sampling techniques.
UNIT-III
Processing Data: Checking-Editing-Coding-transcriptions and Tabulation-Data analysis Meaning and methods-Quantitative and Qualitative analysis. Structuring the Report: Chapter format-Pagination-Identification-Using Quotations-Presenting footnotes – abbreviations Presentation of tables and figures Referencing-Documentation-Use and format of appendices Indexing.
UNIT-IV
Statistics in Research: Specific applications of measures of Central tendency, Dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis in research. Measures of Relationship: Correlation – Simple, Partial and multiple-Regression-Simple and multiple-Association of Attributes – applications in research.
UNIT-V
Hypothesis Testing : Fundamentals of hypothesis testing-Important non-parametric tests: Sign, Run test, Kruskal-Wallis tests and Mann – Whitney test.
UNIT-VI
Parametric Tests: Testing of significance mean, proportion, variance and correlation-Testing for significance of difference between means, proportions, variances and correlation coefficients. ANOVA-One-way and two-way,Chi-Square Tests.
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