Research Methods Supercourse (mirror of BA Super Help Desk ("methods door"))

Introduction

BA Super Help Desk Introductory Lectures: The Help Desk provides lectures for 12 of the major areas to which there will be questions for the help desk. Before you contact the help desk we expect that you will review at least one lecture in each topic. In order to provide a basic understanding for your question, please indicate your hypotheses, as well name, position, address and email. In addition, if you are trying to decide what statistical test to use, we have a very nice web page called Which Test http://whichtest.info/index.html, and would appreciate if you review this also.

If you would like additional knowledge you can visit the Main Help Desk Web Pages

The Mission of the help desk is to answer specific research design questions to help you to publish. Our role will not be to teach statistics in general or to help in English translations but only to help with the research methods. We want to help you bring your research design and statistics up to a level of publishable quality. This is a free service. Please tell researchers who are having problems in publishing about our efforts.

Introduction Questions and Answers Examples

Ask a question - "BA Supercourse Help Desk" "BASupercourse Help Desk" Before you ask a question and before we answer your question, we wanted to make sure that you examined the Help Desk Door lectures to find background information and evaluate Which Test http://whichtest.info/index.html.

We limit the scope of our consultations during the pilot phase to Global/Public health research, Epidemiology, and Statistics.

Answer a question - "BA Supercourse Help Desk" "BASupercourse Help Desk" Please include a particular question to your E-mail together with your Answer to this question. Thank you for your Answer! Direct E-mail address for questions and answers is basuperhelp@gmail.com

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Topics	Lectures	Wikipedia and other info
Bias and confounding	Bias, Confounding and the Role of Chance. Part I Part II Bias and Confounding. Part I Part II Part I In Spanish Part II In Spanish	Bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bias_(statistics)
Missing data	Data Sets and Outcome Measures. Part I Part II Part III Data Quality Control	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Missing_data
Planning Research	Research planning (in Spanish)	http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/steps-of-the-research-process
Power calculations	Sample Size and Statistical Power	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Statistical_power
Presentation of Data	Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data: objectives Organizing data in tables and charts: Criteria for effective presentation Biostatistics course Part 3. Data, summary and presentation in Spanish	http://www.stars.rdg.ac.uk/data.html
Publishing	Publishing research articles: a look on the inside	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Academic_publishing
Registries	MORBIDITY DATA: REGISTRIES AND SURVEILLANCE (Version in Spanish) (In Portuguese) http://www.iarc.fr/en/publications/pdfs-online/epi/sp95/index.php http://www.iarc.fr/en/publications/pdfs-online/epi/sp95/sp95-chap11.pdf	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Disease_registry
Sampling	Sampling Technique & Sampling Size In Spanish	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sampling_(statistics)
Study design	Sampling Frames and Study Types: Studies on life events in Spanish Study Designs for Clinical and Epidemiological Research in Russian in Romanian Study Designs in Epidemiology	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Research_design
Surveillance	Overview of Public Health Surveillance. Part I in Chinese Part II	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Surveillance
Survey design	A Primer on Sample Survey In Chinese Chinese version 2	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey http://oqi.wisc.edu/resourcelibrary/u ploads/resources/Survey_Guide.pdf
Statistical packages	Introduction to Statistical Packages	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_statistical_packages