SOWK 342: Quantitative Methods in Social Research

The course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and application of statistical methods to social work research.  It is also to assist students to analyse field data and interpret the results.  It focuses on the nature of quantitative and statistical methods, organisation and management of statistical data, measures of central tendency and skewed distributions; measures of dispersion, zscore and correlation; chi-square analyses and T- test distribution.