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Research
Research Philosophy & Ethics
1
Research Question
2
Literature Review
3
Bibliography Management
4
Paper Guidelines
5
File Organization
6
Research Concepts
6.1
Reliability & Validity
6.2
Accuracy vs. Precision
6.3
Bias vs. Variance Tradeoff
6.4
Curse of Dimensionality
6.5
Correlation vs. Causation
7
Research Design
7.1
Action
7.2
Case Study
7.3
Case-Control Study
7.4
Causal
7.5
Cohort
7.6
Cross Sectional
7.7
Descriptive
7.8
Experimental
7.9
Exploratory
7.10
Historical
7.11
Longitudinal
7.12
Meta-Analysis
7.13
Mixed Methods
7.14
Observational
7.15
Philosophical
7.16
Sequential
7.17
Systematic Review
7.18
Quasi-experimental
8
Qualitative Research Methods
8.1
Case Study
8.2
Narrative
8.3
Phenomenological
8.4
Ethnography
8.5
Grounded Theory
9
Quantitative Methods
Causal Inference
9.0.1
Experiments
9.0.2
Regression
9.0.3
Matching Methods
9.0.4
Instrumental Variables
9.1
Statistical Tests
9.1.1
1-sample t-test
9.1.2
chi-squared test for variance
9.1.3
z test for proportions
9.1.4
t-test for 2 independent samples
9.1.5
paired t-test
9.1.6
chi-squared test for proportions
9.1.7
chi-squared test for independence
9.1.8
ANOVA
9.2
Regression
9.2.1
Simple Linear Regression
9.2.2
Multiple Linear Regression
9.2.3
Logistic Regression
9.2.4
Mixed Effects Models
9.3
Numerical Methods
9.3.1
Root-Finding Algorithms
9.3.2
Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations
9.4
Text Analysis
9.5
Network Analysis
9.6
Geospatial Analysis
Resources by Discipline
Biology & Biostatistics
Economics & Econometrics
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Sciences
10
Data
10.1
Data Sources by Discipline
10.1.1
Demography and Official Statistics
10.1.2
Economics
10.1.3
Education
10.1.4
Law
10.1.5
Social Sciences
10.2
Data Documentation
11
Analysis
11.1
Logical Fallacies
11.2
Biases
11.3
Model Selection
References
Data Programming
11.4
R
11.5
Cleaning and Reshaping Data
11.6
Regular Expressions
Literate Programming
11.7
LaTeX
11.8
Beamer
11.9
knitr (R + LaTeX)
11.10
R Markdown
11.11
R Bookdown
11.12
Rmd to MS Word
Version Control
11.13
Github
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Research Handbook
Chapter 8
Qualitative Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods Field Guide
8.1
Case Study
8.2
Narrative
8.3
Phenomenological
8.4
Ethnography
8.5
Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory as Scientific Method