Research Methodology
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Briefly describe the different steps involved in a research process?
What do you understand by research?
Distinguish between research methods and research methodology?
Describe different types of research?
Define fully the techniques of defining a research problem?
How do you define a research problem?
Explain the meaning and significance of research design?
Write a short note on experience survey explaining fully its utility in exploratory research
studies?
Distinguish between:
a. Restricted and unrestricted sampling
b. Convenience and purposive sampling
c. Systematic and stratified sampling
d. Cluster and area sampling
What do you mean by sample design?
How would you differentiate between simple random sampling and complex random sampling?
Explain the illustrate the procedure of selecting a random sample?
Enumerate the different methods of collecting data?
Explain the merits and limitations of the observation methods in collecting material?
What are the guiding considerations in construction of questionnaire?
Distinguish between experiment and survey?
Why tabulation is considered essential in research study?
What do you mean by multivariate analysis?
Write short note on the following:
a. Cross tabulation
b. Discriminant analysis
c. Coefficient of contingency
d. Multicollinearity
e. Partial association between two attributes
Describe briefly the commonly used sampling distribution?
Explain the following terms:
a. Sampling frame
b. Sampling error
c. Central limit theorem
d. Student’s t distribution
e. Finite population multiplier
Distinguish between
a. Simple hypothesis and composite hypothesis
b. Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis
c. One-tailed test and two-tailed test
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d. Type-I error and Type-II error
e. Acceptance region and rejection region
f. Power function and operating characteristics function
What is chi-square test? Explain its significance in statistical analysis?
Explain the significance of a research report and narrate the various steps involved in writing
such a report?
Write a short note on documentation in the context of research report?
Write short note on the following:
a. The techniques of writing report
b. Characteristics of a good research report
c. Bibliography and its importance in context of research report
d. Rewriting and polishing of report
e. Interpretation of research
f. Precautions for writing report
Describe probability and non-probability sampling in detail?
What are the features of good research?
Write in short various types of hypothesis analysis?
Write short note on:
a. Chi-square test
b. Z-test
c. T-test
d. F-test