This course is only available to students enrolled in the Executive Master of Public Administration.

This course introduces and examines quantitative reasoning techniques for addressing policy problems, including probabilistic analysis, sampling, data analysis and statistical inference, decision making under uncertainty, modelling, and constrained optimisation. It also considers qualitative research techniques including formulating research questions and objectives, research ethics, data collection techniques, and the analysis and evaluation of qualitative data. The course is practically oriented towards identifying strategies for data collection and principles for critically evaluating the data collected by others.

1. A short (1 hour) mid-term exam, worth 20% of the marks.
2. An individual assignment of up to 2000 words, worth 40% of the marks.
3. A 2-hour end-of term exam, worth 40% of the marks.