NUS 694LR - Quantitative Methods in Health Care Research

This course focuses on quantitative research methods with emphasis on the identification and reduction of threats to internal and external validity. A variety of nonexperimental, designs are compared and contrasted, particularly for secondary data analysis, survey, evaluation, and policy research. Specific research techniques and data analysis procedures for the various design types are discussed and evaluated, but will focus on the use of basic multiple regression techniques. There is an emphasis on the articulation of theory, design, and data analysis in the context of specific research examples, and the application of regression methods using SPSS, SAS or other statistical software.

Credits: 3