Do you use the WHO Epidemiology textbook? What do you think of it?

We are planning a rewrite of the WHO "Basic Epidemiology" textbook. (http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43541/1/9241547073_eng.pdf). Do you use it? If not, why not? And if so, what would...

31 December 2017 4,700 8 View

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I'm trying to track down a questionnaire which originated with the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations. It was used in a couple of studies but the original seems to have...

11 December 2016 3,798 4 View

What are the most prevalent statistics myths in research?

The same myths seem to occur very frequently on ResearchGate, and, indeed, elsewhere. The myth of the need for data to be normally distributed leads the way, but there are others (one pet hate of...

09 October 2016 803 6 View

Is health research hopelessly corrupt?

Academic publishing is a fundamental requirement for career advancement as an academic. However, much research makes use of the unpaid input of patients, students and the general public. They...

01 February 2016 8,133 7 View

Why are people still using Yates correction for the Chi-squared test?

09 October 2015 878 1 View

How does the general public think we should call psychiatry of older age?

I'm finding it rather slow turning up literature on the preferences of patients and the general public for naming these services. Different services can refer to themselves as Geriatic Psychiatry,...

08 September 2015 3,238 8 View

How do you explain the mean to your students?

Everyone has an instrumental concept of the mean: it's what you get when you add up all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers. Fine. And people have some sense that it represents the...

04 May 2015 5,387 11 View

Is anyone using think-aloud protocol (cognitive lab) methodology to investigate test-taking strategies in multiple-choice exams?

01 February 2015 6,212 17 View

Does anyone know of an available case-control dataset that is suitable for teaching health research?

31 December 2014 2,221 6 View

Does Spearman's rho have any advantage over Kendall's tau?

31 December 2014 2,133 19 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 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

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View