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

Does anyone know of a good basic textbook on measuring health outcomes?

We are struggling to find a textbook suitable for a Masters programme in health research. I would also settle for a couple of good journal articles. 39

03 April 2016 5,892 5 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 Spearman's rho have any advantage over Kendall's tau?

31 December 2014 2,133 19 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

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

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

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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