NOTE: The course webpage for CSCI 6055 Research Methods & Statistics (Summer 2013) can be found at http://web.cs.dal.ca/~raghav/cs6055/

CSCI 6903 - Research Methods & Statistics

Fall 2011

Dr. Kirstie Hawkey

(see syllabus for instructor and TA contact information)

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Tutorials

• Tutorial page: Information about the tutorial schedule, assigned readings, lecture notes, etc. Maintained by Anwar Alhenshiri, course TA.

Schedule, readings

• Schedule/Readings

Deliverables

• Questions or comments on readings
• Assignments 1-5
• Research Paper & Presentation

Slides

• Sept 9: Course introduction
• Sept 16: Plagiarism - Don't Do It!
• Sept 16: Research Questions
• Sept 23: Research Question exercise
• Sept 30: Measurements and Validity (handouts)
• Oct 7: Validity (cont.) and control
• Oct 21: True Experiments: Single Factor Design
• Oct 21: Writing A Proposal
• Nov 4: Factorial Designs
• Nov 25: Quasi Experiments & Non-Experimental Research

Other Resources

• Iowa State CS Dept`s links to resources for grad students. Good coverage of research and publishing resources.
• The Atlantic Research Data Centre (located at Dalhousie) offers workshops and brown bag lunch series on statistics and statistics software.