This course focuses on exploring the principles and analysis strategies of quantitative analysis methods. Course contents most commonly used quantitative methods in agricultural business management, including decriptions, survey and sampling, factor analysis,difference test analysis, and multivariate statistics, regression and path analysis. The main objective of the course is that students will develop a conceptual and practical understanding of how to analysis data and to use statistical software packages.

Donald H. McBurney & Therada L. ,White, Research Methods 7, Thomson Learning, Inc, 2007.