| Course Contents |
| The data and power of data, describing the data, variables and statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, distributions and functions, random variable, hypothesis, regression, Visualizing data |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction to data analysis. Introduction to statistical softwares. |
Lecturing and discussion |
| 2 |
Gathering and collecting data, ethics and property rights. Reliability and Validity |
Lecturing and discussion, computer application |
| 3 |
Visualizing the data. Working with missing data
Variable, variable types, random variable. Coding the variables in software |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 4 |
Probability |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 5 |
Distributions, |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 6 |
Normality and parametric tests |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 7 |
Hypothesis tests |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
|
| 9 |
ndependent and dependent/paired t tests |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 10 |
Nonparametric tests |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 11 |
Nonparametric tests |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 12 |
Correlation analysis |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 13 |
ANOVA |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 14 |
Regression analysis, regression models |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 15 |
Regression analysis, regression models |
Lecturing and Computer Application |
| 16 |
final exam |
|
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Hardy, M. & Alan Bryman, 2014. The hand book of Data Analysis, Sage publications Inc.California 91320 |
| 2 |
Provost, F. & Tom Fawcett, 2013. Data Science for Business, O’Reilly Media Inc. CA, 95472. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Textbook, Blackboard, computer and software |