Skills in diagnostic interviewing In my work as a Management Consultant, I’m often carrying out mini research projects. The balance of hard and soft data collection techniques varies in the generation of evidence to support conclusions of issue analysis; which often leads to a business case being developed for funding for the implementation of a …
Outliers can cause your model to be biased because they affect the values of the estimated regression coefficients. The change in this one point has a dramatic effect on the regression model chosen to fit the data. With the outlier present, the regression model changes – its gradient is reduced the line becomes flatter and …
With regression we strive to find the line that best describes the data collected, then estimate the gradient and intercept of the line. Having defined these values, we can insert different values of our predictor variable into the model to estimate the value of the outcome variable or dependent variable. A line that has a …
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The method of least squares is a way of finding the line that best fits the data (i.e. finding a line that goes through or as close to as many of the data point as possible). This ‘line of best fit’ is found by ascertaining which line, of all of the possible lines that could …
I’ve been spending the last week attempting to get to grips with SPSS! I’ve found these SPSS tutorials really helpful from Central Michigan University I ordered these two books from Amazon and finding that I’m finally making a progress, as a result! Discovering Statistics using SPSS by Andy Field 978-1847879073 SPSS Survival Manual by Julie …
I have been reading more on grounded theory and thinking more on coding. I’ve been mapping the questions of my questionnaire to the coding categories.
Describing the approach of hypothesis Guided to coding data The coding is grounded in a set of views to prove a hypothesis eg. A researcher may have the view that conventional models of what a graduate is supposed to get out of his or her studies and the question of whether university-level learning is about …
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Ensuring your data is encrypted for research I’ve been chatting with a brilliant IT Consultant (please email me if you’d like the contact details) today who has been advising me on how I can ensure my data is secure during my research and to ensure confidentiality of personal data. The information gathered will be subject …
Describing The approach of representational to coding data The aim here is to represent the surface content fairly so you often go for key words in what has been said as the core concepts in the coding categories. A representational code list is produced. Representational approach to coding data just tries to summarise the manifest …