Why does data analysis at American University of Sharjah depend on which statistics course you took?
AUS requires a specific foundational statistics course depending on your major, not one shared course across the university: engineering students take NGN 211, Introduction to Engineering Probability and Statistics; business students take QBA 201, Quantitative Business Analysis; natural science students take STA 201; and social science students take STA 202.
Major-Specific Statistics Courses
Each course establishes a slightly different statistical foundation, and a data analysis write-up that doesn't reflect the conventions your specific course track actually taught can read as inconsistent with your own academic background.
Human Subjects Research
There is also a compliance step that catches many students off guard if their project involves surveying or interviewing real people.
CITI Program Ethics Training
Any AUS research involving human subjects requires the researcher to complete mandatory CITI Program ethics training, through either the Biomedical or Social-Behavioral-Educational track, and receive IRB protocol approval before data collection formally begins.
IRB Protocol Approval
Any AUS research involving human subjects requires the researcher to complete mandatory CITI Program ethics training, through either the Biomedical or Social-Behavioral-Educational track, and receive IRB protocol approval before data collection formally begins.
Survey Data Compliance
A data analysis project built on survey data collected without this approval can run into real problems at submission, regardless of how strong the actual statistical analysis is.