Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Proposal for a New Course

Course Number & Title: BM701H – Data Analysis in Management Research
L-T-P-C: 3-0-0-6
Course Content / Syllabus:

Introduction to basic concepts in quantitative research methods, questionnaire design, scaling, sampling; Basic data analysis, review of basic descriptive statistics, data preparation and presentation, data reading, coding, frequency distributions and Chi-Squared test; Hypothesis testing, Type 1 and 2 errors; Multiple Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Co-variance, Correlation analysis, Principal assumptions, zero-order, part and partial correlations; Multiple regression analysis, assumptions, Dummy variable regression, panel regression; Advanced regression methodology; Hierarchical and logistic regression for management research; Factor analysis for management research; Discriminant analysis for management research; Cluster analysis; Structural Equation Modeling for Management Research.

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