COMM 800 - Communication Research Statistics

Credits: 3
Designed to prepare doctoral students to interpret and conduct quantitative data analysis in communications and instructional technologies. Students will learn to perform the statistical analysis common to the field of communications and understand the derivation, application and limitations of specific statistical tests. They will also analyze and critique the use of statistics in research published in the discipline. Topics addressed include data management, descriptive and inferential statistics, correlation and factor analysis.