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This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences, covering subjects such as education, sociology, business, nursing. If you area qualitative researcher who needs to venture into the world of numbers, or a student instructed to undertake a quantitative research project despite a hatred for maths, then this booklet should be a real help.
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- Social Sciences and Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology Textbooks
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- e-book
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We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted.
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- Psychology and Statistics and Research Methods
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- Psychology -- Statistical methods Textbooks
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- e-book
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This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.
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- Psychology and Statistics and Research Methods
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- Developmental psychology Social sciences -- Research Textbooks
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- e-book
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In this video, a team of students preparing for a group community health project on the topic “overuse of hands and arms”. The project is a student learning activity of Problem-based Public Health module in the MBBS curriculum offered by the School of Public Health. The team is required to deliver patient education materials and a written report on the topic they decided.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research Technical writing
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- Video
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This video demonstrates the search process, starting with finding keywords and ending with executing the search and accessing the literature. Topics covered include advanced searching techniques, using filters in PubMed, and accessing literature through open access websites like PubMed Central. 1. Steps of the literature search process 2. Gathering Keywords on the Internet 3. Understanding MeSH 4. Review the search terms 5. Database search techniques and Boolean operators 6. Searching PubMed and using Advanced search 7. Using PubMed filters 8. PubMed Central 9. MyNCBI 10. Accessing the literature 11. Additional resources
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In this video, the team has spent a lot of time on searching relevance journal articles, but still, could not locate the right one. That's probably because they did not search with the right keywords and are unable to connect them correctly. Did you encounter this similar situation before? Let's look at this one-minute video to brush up on your searching skills on using subject terms, Boolean operators, truncation, and more.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Keyword searching Information retrieval Database searching
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- Video
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In this video, a team of four students have used skills learned in the previous module and found a lot of information which seems relevant. They now have a problem of evaluating the information found to determine what is the most relevant to their research. Apart from that, they also found that there are many types of medical research and studies.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Medicine -- Research -- Methodology Public health -- Research -- Methodology Medical care -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are useful for evidence-based clinical and public health practice. The widespread and growing application of systematic review methods for the synthesis of evidence on important or pressing research and clinical questions underscore the need for health-care professionals to understand and critique this research design. This course will provide a detailed description of the systematic review process, discuss the strengths and limitations of the method, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to actually perform a systematic review and meta-analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: formulation of the review question, searching of literature, quality assessment of studies, data extraction, meta-analytic methods, assessment of heterogeneity and report writing. The course will also cover statistical issues such as selection of statistical models for meta-analysis, practical examples of fixed and random effects models, best evidence syntheses (qualitative systematic reviews) as well as examples of methods to evaluate heterogeneity and publication bias. STATA statistical software will be used to perform meta-analysis during the computer lab, along with tutorials on how to effectively use tools such as PubMed for conducting reviews.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Meta-analysis Research -- Methodology Systematic reviews (Medical research)
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- Courseware
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A 24-minute class covering the basics of using EndNote X8 on the Macintosh.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
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- Video
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This 25-minute class covers the basics for working with EndNote X8 on Windows.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
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- Video