DBA6000 - Quantitative business research methods

Leader: Dr Rob Hyndman

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2008 (Evening)

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• acquire the necessary quantitative skills to conduct high quality independent research related to business administration.
• acquire a comprehensive grounding in a number of quantitative methods of data production and analysis.
• consider and evaluate data collection instruments, sampling strategies and the appropriateness of archival data for a research purpose.
• assess research design including experimental designs, observational studies, case studies, longitudinal analysis and cross-sectional analysis.
• conduct quantitative data analysis of a suitable multivariate data set through a practical research activity.