Scientific and Empirical Methods

Introduction

The students are able to:
• Describe and apply the fundamentals of academic work
• Research, evaluate and quote specialist literature
• Present and apply academic methods of literature analysis
• Understand and apply concepts and methods of descriptive and explorative statistics

Blended Learning

• Principles of academic and scientific work
o Science and scientific language
o Literature research
o Citation and source work
o Avoidance of plagiarism
• Principles of descriptive and explorative statistics
o statistical characteristics and variables
o univariate and multivariate descriptive and explorative statistics
o index numbers
o correlation and regression analyses
o concentration measurement
o time series analysis

• American Psychological Association (ed.). (2020). Publication manual of the American psychological association (Seventh edition). American Psychological Association.
• Montgomery, S. L. (2017). The Chicago guide to communicating science (2nd ed). University of Chicago press.

Term paper and written exam

English

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Blended Learning

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