UNSW Handbook Course - Research Skills

Research Skills - BLDG3402


	Faculty: Faculty of the Built Environment
	School: Building Construction Management Program
	Contact: Phua,Florence Ting Ting
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Offered: Semester 2 2005
	Fee Band: 1

Description

An introduction to research methods, analytical techniques and presentation. Theories and philosophies of science and research. Research topics; collecting, generating and evaluating information. Structuring the study and presenting results. Probability: sample spaces and probabilities; probability trees; distribution of random variables; expected value and decision analysis. Statistics: mean, mode, median, standard deviation and variance; normal and binomial distributions; linear regression.

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