COURSE OUTCOMES
CO1. Understanding the types of researches and sets his mind in the field of research.
CO2. Describing the importance & use of biostatistics for research work.
CO3. Applying the acquire skills of reviewing literature, formulating a hypothesis, collect data,
CO4. Applying the steps in Physiotherapy research process.
COURSE CONTENT
A research methodology or involves specific techniques that are adopted in research process tocollect, assemble and evaluate data. It defines those tools that are used to gather relevant information in a specific research study. Surveys, questionnaires and interviews are the common tools of research.
UNIT-I [20 SESSIONS]
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Meaning of research, objectives of research, Motivation in research, Types of Research & research approaches, Research methods vs methodology, Criteria for good research.
2. Research problem: Statement of research problem, Statement of purpose and objectives of research problem, Necessity of defining the problem
3. Research design: Meaning of research design, Need for research design, Features for good design, Different research designs, Basic principles of research design.
4. Measurement & scaling techniques: Measurement in research- Measurement scales, sources of error in measurement, Technique of developing measurement tools, Meaning of scaling, its classification, important scaling techniques.
UNIT -II [20 SESSIONS]
METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION AND MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
1. Methods of data collection: collection of primary data, collection data through questionnaires & schedules, Difference between questionnaires & schedules.
2. Computer technology: Introduction to Computers, Computer Application in Research Computers & Researcher
3. Biostatistics
4. Introduction: Meaning, definition, characteristics of statistics. Importance of the study of statistics, Branches of statistics, Statistics and health science, Parameters and Estimates, Variables and their types, Measurement scales.
5. Tabulation of Data: Basic principles of graphical representation, Types of diagrams - histograms, frequency polygons, smooth frequency polygon, cumulative frequency curve, Normal probability curve.
6. Measures of Central Tendency: Need for measures of central Tendency, Definition and calculation of Mean ungrouped and grouped, interpretation and calculation of Median-ungrouped and grouped, Meaning and calculation of Mode, Geometric mean & Harmonic mean, Guidelines for the use of various measures of central tendency.
UNIT-III [20 SESSIONS]
PROBABILITY AND STANDARD DISTRIBUTIONS AND ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE & COVARIANC
1. Measures of Dispersion: Range, mean deviation, standard deviation & variance.
2. Probability and Standard Distributions: Meaning of probability of standard distribution, the binominal distribution, the normal distribution, Divergence from normality-skewness, kurtosis. 3. Correlation & regression: Significance, correlation coefficient, linear regression ®ression equation.
4. Testing of Hypotheses, Level of significance, Degrees of freedom
5. Chi-square test, test of Goodness of fit & student t-test
6. Analysis of variance & covariance: Analysis of variance (ANOVA), what is ANOVA?, Basic principle of ANOVA, ANOVA technique, Analysis of Co variance (ANACOVA)
7. Sampling: Definition, Types- simple, random, stratified, cluster and double sampling, Need for sampling Criteria for good samples, Application of sampling in community, Procedures of sampling and sampling designs errors.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Research Methodology- C.R Kothari. 2. Business Statistics- S.P Gupta.
- Teacher: Dr. Debasmita Sarkar