This course equips doctoral students in Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting with quantitative research methods and tools commonly used to design a study in the form of (1) academia (building and testing scientific theories). On successful completion of this course, a doctoral candidate should be able to:
- Understand research concepts and terminology in scientific research;
- Develop quantitative skills in scientific research: skills to define research problems, skills to search data, skills to collect data, skills to analyze quantitative data;
- Develop research proposal, quantitative analysis plan for research;
- Demonstrate the ability to do independent research.