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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...
01 January 2018 4,789 8 View
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...
12 December 2016 3,890 4 View
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...
10 October 2016 902 6 View
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
04 April 2016 6,000 5 View
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...
02 February 2016 8,242 7 View
It seems to me that Yates correction is used unthinkingly – or perhaps because it sounds like a good idea – but the more I read about it the less convinced I am that it's a good idea at all. Is...
10 October 2015 969 1 View
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,...
09 September 2015 3,323 8 View
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...
05 May 2015 5,502 11 View
I am interested in why some students can score better on MCQ exams than other forms of assessment while others underperform. It seems to me that a think-aloud protocol (cognitive lab) might cast...
02 February 2015 6,315 17 View
Vygotsky's writings have been very influential in education in the former soviet union, but I haven't come across them in higher education in Europe or elsewhere. Does anyone know of any examples?
01 January 2015 4,794 5 View
I am looking for a dataset either publicly available or that a researcher is willing to share. It is for a course on health research.
01 January 2015 2,328 6 View
I've always had a preference for tau, because it's got an intuitive interpretation. It's not easy to locate literature comparing tau and rho. From what I have read, rho is badly affected by small...
01 January 2015 2,221 19 View
The standard deviation is usually quoted alongside the mean, as a matter of convention. However, it rarely tells you anything useful about the dispersion of the data in the sample or the...
12 December 2013 6,328 38 View
