Is secondary analysis recognized by you (researchers) as a scholarly research method/strategy?

Do you know of published researches that employed secondary analysis as its research method? Thank you so much.

05 June 2016 3,864 14 View

Do the upvoters/downvoters in RG reflect the objectivity/bias of evaluators in actual thesis/dissertation defense?

01 February 2016 1,042 10 View

Do we apply statistical calculations to measurements in qualitative research?

Literature says that while the unit of measure in quantitative research is in "numbers", the unit of measure in qualitative research is in "words" or in "actions". And if we apply "statistical...

03 April 2015 573 27 View

Is there an association between a faculty member's extent of involvement in research and her/his career growth in the university?

Please share any study/article attesting to the answer to the question.

03 April 2015 8,792 1 View

Is a theoretical framework indispensable to a research paper?

In the many papers I have read, especially in academic researches, there is a theoretical foundation/ framework. Inasmuch as there is the applied research in addition to basic research, is a...

02 March 2015 1,329 11 View

Which statistical package/program must be taught and allowed to be used by undergraduate students?

By graduate students? SPSS, R, excel, excel analysis toolpak, minitab, etc? Why?

01 February 2015 7,610 15 View

Which do you prefer, "truth" or "practice"?

Many scholars have presented investigative data that prove "Christ was not born on December" but on a summer month, yet majority of the people still prefer to celebrate it on...

11 December 2014 761 7 View

Can we consider "healthy practices" as "process medicine"?

In operations management, business organizations offer either product or service. Can we consider healthy practices as non-product medicine?

11 December 2014 5,604 26 View

Has the world enough area and technology to sustain with an all-organic food the growing population of mankind?

I understand that non-organic foods are pursued to increase productivity.

11 December 2014 4,176 6 View

Is a probability sample required in inferential statistical analysis?

Please cite works of noted authorities on the subject.

11 December 2014 8,187 27 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

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

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View