This site contains material and links for the MSc module Research Skills. The objective of this course is to to learn discipline-independent skills for doing quantitative research at the graduate-level.
The course is designed around conducting a practical research project, and covers the following topics:
- Introduction to philosophy and history of science, the scientific method, finding your question
- Literature research
- Design of experiments,
- Good scientific practice
- Data analysis and visualization in R,
- Introduction to LaTeX,
- Scientific writing,
- Scientific presentations
- Communication, social media, and life as a working scientist.
The lecture notes for the course are here. Slides of the lectures, as well as further readings and exercises are on the online learning platform of the University of Regensburg
Literature Research - lab material / practical Project Organization - lab material / project template LaTeX - lab material Statistics with R - lab material Version Control - lab material Scientific Writing - lab material
Author: Florian Hartig, University of Regensburg
Unless specified otherwise, the author of these materials is Florian Hartig. Reuse permitted under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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