Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis

Abstract

This OER (Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis Workshop 2020) consists of the syllabus that was used to teach quantitative research design and analysis methods to graduate Linguistics students in a blended course over a period of two weeks. Students worked through the topics included in the syllabus in preparation for live interactive video sessions. The links to live online sessions and course evaluations have been removed from the OER.

The OER introduces students/researchers to the steps and decisions involved in quantitative data analysis of linguistic data, and explains common statistical terminology, such as ‘sample’, ‘mean’, ‘standard deviation’, ‘correlation’, ‘nominal’, ‘ordinal’ and ‘scale’ data. The OER further explains the use of common statistical tests (e.g. t-test, correlation, anova, regression) and demonstrates how one should perform these tests using jamovi. The OER finally leads students/researchers to understand how the results of statistical tests should be interpret and reported, and describes the various graphing options that are available in jamovi to display data.