| 21-March-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Introduction to the research, What is research? Why do we do research? Who does research? The basic steps of research. |
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1.5 hours |
Research basics, Research characteristics, research projects and its pitfalls. sources of research problem |
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| 28-March-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Hypothesis, delimitations, definitions, assumptions, research proposal and its components |
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1.5 hours |
Research process, methodologies and comparison among different research methodologies. |
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| 4-April-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Literature Review, Why literature review? How to conduct literature review? Topic identification, Sources of literature. |
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1.5 hours |
Reading the literature, Research paper template |
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| 11-April-2022 |
1.5 hours |
How to read a research paper? Comprehension and Evaluation |
Assignment # 1 |
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1.5 hours |
Synthesis and Paper review |
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| 18-April-2022 |
1.5 hours |
How to write a paper? Types of research papers. A scientific contribution, Structure of a paper. |
Assignment # 1 |
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1.5 hours |
Literature review analysis and synthesis, systematic and argument analysis. |
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| 25-April-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Methods of argument analysis, Fisher and Toulmin method. Assembling and organizing literature using map. |
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1.5 hours |
Writing the literature review and Review article |
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| 2-May-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Research article, table, figure and equation citations and indexing. |
Assignment # 3 |
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1.5 hours |
Preparing Bibliography, APA style, MLA, Chicago manual. Where to publish? A template for reviewing |
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| 9-May-2022 |
1 Hour |
Mid Term |
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| 16-May-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Elementary statistics, Population, sample, parameter, statistics, quantitative and qualitative data, level of measurements, designing experiments. |
Assignment # 4 |
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1.5 hours |
Methods of sampling, frequency distributions, analysis of frequency distributions, basic measures (ratio, proportions and fractions, percentage, percents, percent change, percent increase, percentile, rate, exponential notations and precision) |
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| 23-May-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Data analysis, descriptive statistics, Mean, Median, Mode and Range, Standard deviation and variance |
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1.5 hours |
Skewness, Kurtosis, coefficient of variance, correlation, regression, histogram and data normalization, Discussion related to Midterm Exam. |
Quiz# 2 |
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| 30-May-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Confusion/Error matrix, Important terms, Rates calculations, Accuracy |
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1.5 hours |
Misclassification rate, Recall, False positive rate, True negative rate, precision, F-measure |
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| 6-June-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Receiver Operator Characteristics (ROC), creating ROC, interpreting the ROC |
Quiz# 3 |
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1.5 hours |
Area under the curve, Relation between sensitivity, specificity, FPR and Threshold |
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| 13-June-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Measure of Association, strength of prediction, classification problems, classification accuracy, confidence interval for classification accuracy, |
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1.5 hours |
Impact of sample size, reliability and validity, Std Deviation and coefficient of variation |
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| 20-June-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Z Score, Standard (Z) scores, calculating Z Scores, Interpreting Z Scores |
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1.5 hours |
Z Score tables, Use of Z score tables, Cumulative Z score, Level of confidence, |
Quiz# 4 |
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| 27-June-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Research problem identification, Research proposal writing, Why do we need to write proposal? |
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1.5 hours |
Contents of research proposal, Presentations, |
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| 4-July-2022 |
1.5 hours |
Writing research reports and thesis. Contents of report and thesis. |
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1.5 hours |
Presentations, Discussion about final exam |
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| 11-July-2022 |
2 Hour |
Final Term |
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