An SCI paper (2007) inappropriately executed a Model. Journal Editor has refused to accept Note on the paper. What should be done?

An SCI journal, published by Springer, associated with a University, published a paper in 2007. Recently, me and my colleagues identified that the authors of that paper executed a model...

06 July 2018 320 5 View

How to rank interconnected factors based on the user responses?

Responses were obtained on likert scale.User were just asked to rate the relative importance of factors in their eyes. Researcher "believes", all factors are interlinked/correlated hence AHP...

31 December 2017 7,839 3 View

How to rank Independent Variables influencing a Dep. Variable?

How to rank Large number of Predictors (let's say 10, or 15) influencing a Dependent Variable? Prioritization need to be done on the basis of influence/affect. (In case of small sample size,...

10 November 2017 1,025 16 View

Are you looking for Collaboration involving Sensitivity Analysis, Decision Sciences, & OR methods' application in Mgmt Sc., Engr. Mgmt, & Econ. etc?

A group of researchers are looking for YOUNG and ambitious collaborators/co-authors/co-researchers who meet following criterions. Skills needed & Area of Research: Good practical knowledge of...

10 November 2017 5,052 14 View

How to rank 5 Predictors influencing a Dep. Variable?

08 September 2017 8,194 3 View

How to Normalize data with different units?

I have several columns of data. In each column the data has different units. Some data is "lower the better" (e.g., cost) and some are "higher the better" (e.,g., employee productivity). To enter...

08 September 2017 6,556 8 View

How to rank different factors affecting a Variable?

There are several factors that are influencing a variable. We only know the extent of influence and the extent of correlation. How to prioritize these factors using mere these two...

06 July 2017 3,147 9 View

How to calculate these red underlined portions in 3-D Absolute Degree Grey Incident Analysis?

31 December 2016 9,241 4 View

PhD Dissertation should first be published as book or as papers?

My PhD dissertation contains some novel models; almost each chapter is one model (except first and last chapters). Except one or two, all are expected to remain unpublished till my Defense, which...

01 January 1970 5,744 5 View

Can i use content from my published papers in my PhD Dissertation?

I published Research articles out of my PhD work but now while compiling dissertation i am worrying about the Self-Plagiarism. Can i use the same sentences of my papers in my dissertation with...

01 January 1970 5,026 29 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

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 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

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 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

Have someone successfully used the ER alpha (Santa Cruz sc-8002) antibody in immunostaining ?

Santa Cruz now recommends this new antibody (F-10) but I can't find a publication using this reference. I'm working on human et non human primate hypothalamus and so far, it doesn't work. Is...

02 March 2021 10,003 2 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View