Dr Nicoleta Gaciu is Senior Lecturer in Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her academic and research specialisations in disciplines such as physics, statistics, computer sciences, research methods and business have given her the best opportunities to make connections across disciplines, to view real-life phenomena through different lenses and to take different perspectives, knowledge, logical and methodological approaches for interdisciplinary research.
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Part 1: Understanding quantitative data and R 1. Introduction to information, knowledge and quantitative data 2. An introduction to R and RStudio Part 2: Data visualisation 3. Graphical representation of data Part 3: Providing information about data 4. Descriptive statistics 5. Measures of dispersion and distributions 6. Normal distribution and standardised scores Part 4: Making estimations and predictions from the data 7. Fundamentals of inferential statistics 8. Estimations and hypothesis testing Part 5: From sample to population 9. One-sample tests 10. Differences between the independent or dependent two samples 11. Difference between more than two independent samples 12. Difference between more than two dependent samples Part 6: Relationships and predictions 13. Relationship between variables 14. Predictions for independent and dependent variables