DBA6000 - Quantitative business research methods

Leader(s): Dr Rob Hyndman

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (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.

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in course code 3186 to undertake this unit.