What are the costs and benefits of using SEM-PLS?

I have many colleagues who advocate the use of SEM-PLS. However, an editor from a top tier journal suggested that "modern ML SEM procedures can account for non-normal distributions and small...

06 July 2019 7,986 3 View

Have you ever uploaded a revised manuscript (and responded to the reviewers' remarks); then you were informed that your reviewers have been changed?

I have recently responded to three (3) reviewers' critical remarks, then the editor informed me that these reviewers have been changed (as they declined to review my revised contribution - i.e....

06 July 2019 211 13 View

Empirical studies can use 4-point scales to reduce the social desirability bias. Do you agree with this practice?

The researchers may not want their respondents to choose the mid-point (e.g. 3: in a 5-point likert scale).

06 July 2018 1,088 14 View

Announcing a Call for Chapters on Tourism Marketing. Would you like to contribute in an authoritative textbook by Routledge?

01 February 2017 5,679 3 View

Which psychometric testing would you use to test the set hypothesis and be able to draw worthwhile conclusions from a regression analysis?

Psychometric tests are a standard and scientific method used to measure individuals' mental capabilities and behavioural styles. Psychometric tests are designed to measure candidates' suitability...

01 February 2016 7,774 3 View

What are your views on the circular economy?

The basis of the Circular Economic (CE) approach lies in extracting the embedded costs of resources; through re-using, repairing, refurbishing, recycling and restoring materials and products...

31 December 2015 3,967 7 View

Should Universities collaborate with business and industry to include mandatory internships for their students?

Academic (and vocational) courses could integrate work experience into the curriculum programmes (in order to improve learning outcomes). At the same time, higher education ought to identify any...

11 December 2015 9,965 13 View

Are the journal impact factors reliable, trustworthy and unbiased?

10 November 2015 2,635 10 View

How can researchers increase their academic impact on ResearchGate?

I reckon that scientific fields of study (eg. medicine) are more important for RG and other bibliometrics e.g. citation analysis, impact factor et cetera.

06 July 2015 7,816 2 View

Are there any researchers who are researching the link between social cohesion and education?

I look forward to receiving any feedback on this paper on this conceptual paper / case study.

02 March 2015 4,873 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Does anyone know how to plot my station to a section plot on Ocean Data View (ODV)?

I made a vertical section plot with WOA .nc file on ODV, and now I want to plot my stations (csv. file) in it. Does anyone know how to import my points to the section? They are two different...

01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View