Apr 18, 2026  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HAY 552 - Research Methods for Physical Therapists


First of three courses designed to prepare students to search for and critically appraise scientific literature as well as understand the fundamentals of research methods, design, and statistics. Includes principles of evidence based practice, use of electronic data bases to search for evidence, research and measurement reliability and validity, research design, descriptive statistics, statistical inference, tests for experimental comparison, correlation, regression, and nonparametric tests. Addresses the relationship between statistics and research design by introducing relevant research articles in the healthcare field.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): First Year Fall Courses



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