Advanced Quantitative Analytic Methods for Nursing Research

Course Description

This is a course in advanced quantitative analytical methods. Students taking the course have already had introductory coursework in research methods, measurement theory, basic statistics, and probability, the linear model as applied through multiple regression, and analysis of variance. The readings and class time are distributed between survey research and revisiting ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The survey research component includes measure evaluation and questionnaire construction and administration, sample planning/design, and dealing with missing values. Advanced statistical methods include methods focused on research questions, study design, data collection procedures, and analyses related to longitudinal studies and intervention research. Content is focused on methodological techniques and issues pertinent to investigations of change over time including growth curve modeling, repeated measures ANOVA, survival analysis, and nonlinear regression models. Prerequisites: 45:705:607 or 26:705:570, and 26:705:681, 685.

Code

26:705:686

Credits

3

Subject

Nursing