Research Methods At University Of Ghana
The main aim of this course is to equip students with a variety of quantitative and qualitative
methods for collecting and analyzing data for their long essays. Topics discussed include:
Sampling Techniques, Proposal Writing, Designing Questionnaire, Ethical Issues in Research,
Pictorial Representation of Summaries from collected data, summary statistics, Statistical
Inferences (Confidence Interval and Hypothesis Testing), Simple Regression and Multiple
Regression. Students are also introduced to some non-parametric statistical tests.