A theoretical and practical examination of the pharmaceutical environment and drug distribution system using administrative pharmacy sciences as tools for analysis. An introduction to research methods and principles used in designing, planning, implementing, analyzing and interpreting research projects in pharmacy practice. A critical analysis of the current problems in pharmacy practice with individual case presentations. Tutorial or directed, individual research problems in administrative pharmacy or other related fields. Inferential methods such as t-tests, oneway analysis of variance, and multiple comparisons are also presented.
Course covers the major inferential statistics techniques common to the behavioral sciences.
Correlation, analysis of variance, linear regression and analysis of covariance are major topics. Computer applications are included.