GIRI0001-1 : Methodological bases in analysing qualitative and quantitative data

Study Programmes 2016-2017

GIRI0001-1

Methodological bases in analysing qualitative and quantitative data

Duration :

10h Th, 10h Mon. WS

Number of credits :

Master de spécialisation en gestion intégrée des risques sanitaires dans les pays du sud		1

Lecturer :

Johann Detilleux, Frédéric Farnir

Coordinator :

Frédéric Farnir

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

The course presents the basics of biostatitics (uni- and multivariate descriptive analysis, hypothesis testing), using MS Excel and R.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

At the end of the course, the student is able to:
- choose the adequate graphical presentation for a dataset - choose the adequate descriptive statistics to give correct account of the variability in a dataset - understand the basic statistical tests and is able to use them
- is able to interpret the results of the analyses - use the basic statistical functions of MS Excel. - understand the basics of the R software (data set manipulation, functions usage, basic statistical analyses).

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Presentations, discussions, exercises (with computers)

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

face-to-face