Course Information
Course Code |
8540504 |
Course Section |
1 |
Course Title |
RESEARCH METHODS IN BUILDING SCIENCE |
Course Credit |
3 |
Course ECTS |
4.0 |
Course Catalog Description |
The problem: where it lies; what be its ‘parts’; how best describe it. Information: sources, modes, types and cost(s). Objectives: formulation and realization. Data: measures of location and dispersion; reliability and consistency; in-terpretation and inference. Data: frequency and other distributions. Probability: dependent and independent events; the random experiment, observation and variable. The design of experiments: population and sample; parameters and statistics; systematic sampling and sampling distributions; the sample variance and confidence intervals. The Hypothesis: formulation, tests, errors and level of significance. Quantitative and qualitative methods. |
Prerequisites |
No prerequisites |
Schedule |
Not available |
Lab Hours & Location |
Mondays 9:30 to 12:30 in the BS lab |
Learning Management System |
https://odtuclass.metu.edu.tr/ |
Instructor Information
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Name/Title |
Prof.Dr. SOOFİA TAHİRA ELİAS ÖZKAN |
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Office Address |
BS Lab Architecture Annexe Building |
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|
soofia[at]metu.edu.tr |
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Office Phone |
210 2221 |
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Office Hours |
1:30 to 5:30 pm on Mondays and Thursdays |