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This document provides an outline for a course on research methodology and computational techniques. The course covers topics such as defining a research problem, research design, sampling design, measurement techniques, methods of data collection and presentation, processing and analyzing data, testing hypotheses, and numerical techniques. The course aims to introduce students to key concepts in research methodology and provide computational tools for working with data.

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RMCT Course Outline

This document provides an outline for a course on research methodology and computational techniques. The course covers topics such as defining a research problem, research design, sampling design, measurement techniques, methods of data collection and presentation, processing and analyzing data, testing hypotheses, and numerical techniques. The course aims to introduce students to key concepts in research methodology and provide computational tools for working with data.

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Research Methodology and Computational Techniques

Course
Credits: 3-0-0

Code:

10P1GGE201
Course Outline

Introduction to Research Methodology: Meaning of Research, Objectives


of Research, Motivations in Research, Types and Approaches of Research,
Significance of Research, Research Methods v/s Methodology, Research and
Scientific Methods, Research Process, Criteria of Good Research.
Defining the Research Problem: What is Research Problem? Selecting the
Problem, Necessity of and Techniques in defining the problem
Research design: Basic research process, Meaning and necessity of
research design, Features of good research design, Different research
designs, Basic principles
Sample Design: Sample survey, Implications of a sample design, Steps in
sampling design, Need for sampling, Important sampling distributions,
Criteria of selecting a sampling procedure, Characteristic of a good sample
design, Different types of samples design
Measurement and scaling techniques: Measurement in research,
Measurement scales, Sources of errors in measurement, Techniques of
developing measurement tools, Scaling, Scale classification bases, important
scaling techniques
Methods of Data Collection and Presentation: Various methods of
Primary and secondary data collection Selection of appropriate method for
data collection; Case Study Method, Guidelines for developing questionnaire,
successful interviewing. Survey v/s experiment, Methods of Data
presentation
Processing and analysis of data: Frequency distributions, Measure of
central tendency, Measures of dispersion , Simple regression analysis,
Multiple correlation and regression, Estimation of population means, Sample
size and its determination, Chi- square test, Analysis of Variance and Covariance
Testing of Hypothesis:
Basic concepts, Flow diagram, Power of a
hypothesis test, Important parametric tests, Hypothesis Testing of Means,
hypothesis testing of Correlation coefficients, Limitations of Tests of
hypothesis

Numerical Techniques:
Solution of systems of simultaneous linear
equations: Direct and indirect methods, Eigen values and vectors,
Interpolation and approximations.

Text Book (For RM part)


1. Research Methodology-Methods and Techniques by C.R. Kothari; New Age
publication.
2. Research Methodology by R.Panneerselvam ; PHI publication.
3. Research Methodology by P.K. Sharma
Text Book (For CT part)
1. Smith, G.D., Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations: Finite difference
methods, Third Edition, Oxford University Press 1985.

2. Gerald, C.F., Applied Numerical Analysis, 6 th Edition, Addition Wesley,


2002.
3.Conte, S.D and deBoor, C., Elementary Numerical Analysis, An algorithmic
Approach,3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, New York,1980.
4. G .Hadley. (1962)
1962.

Linear Programming, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley,

5. H.A. Taha. (1992) Operations Research- An Introduction, New York:


Macmillan.
6. F. S. Hiller and G. J. Liberman. Introduction to Operations Research, San
Francisco:
Holden- Day.

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