From parallel strands to an integrated research design This is the third post in the series Research Questions That Actually Work. The first post focused on quantitative research questions and the discipline of measurable design. The second examined qualitative research questions and the logic of…

From broad curiosity to meaningful and interpretable inquiry This is the second post in the series Research Questions That Actually Work. The first post examined quantitative research questions and the logic of measurable, answerable design. This post turns to qualitative research questions, where the central…

From broad interest to measurable, answerable design Many weak empirical studies do not fail because the software is wrong or the regression is badly coded. They fail earlier, when a broad topic is mistaken for a quantitative research question. A student says, “I want to…

The following video tutorial gives a brief overview of the Sample Size Calculator application. The Sample Size Calculator is an interactive Shiny application which allows you to calculate sample size when estimating population mean value or population proportion.   [su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7juKRR-Kahs” rel=”no”]

Select CRAN server Click the R desktop icon to start R program. The start screen should look like the following. Click Packages on the main menu and then select Set CRAN mirror from the drop-down list. There are dozens of servers around the world from…

What is R? is a free open source statistical program. It could be used to conduct statistical and econometric analysis both in an interactive mode and batch mode, i.e. using simple statistical programming. R is modularly built where each module (called package) perform a specific…

This is the first post in My Statistical Consultant Ltd blog. If you need help while working on a doctoral/master thesis and research projects, from the choice of topic, writing the application, methodology, to the presentation of the results obtained, you will find it in…