introduction to a research paper

... Canada, Provinces and Territories, Annual (Number) In CANSIM (database) Ottawa: Minister of Industry, Canada; 2009 Statistics Canada: Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories by Age Group and ... Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Population Health Investigator award Dr Degner holds a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)/CIHR Chair Dr Morgan holds a Chair ... in Canada: What Is It and Do I Need It? Ottawa: Council on Aging of Ottawa; 2008 Statistics Canada: 2007 General Social Survey: Care Tables Ottawa: Minister of Industry, Canada; 2008 Catalogue...

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... Canada, Provinces and Territories, Annual (Number) In CANSIM (database) Ottawa: Minister of Industry, Canada; 2009 Statistics Canada: Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories by Age Group and ... Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Population Health Investigator award Dr Degner holds a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)/CIHR Chair Dr Morgan holds a Chair ... in Canada: What Is It and Do I Need It? Ottawa: Council on Aging of Ottawa; 2008 Statistics Canada: 2007 General Social Survey: Care Tables Ottawa: Minister of Industry, Canada; 2008 Catalogue...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Too large a sample costs too much, and too small a sample offers inaccurate results You also need to make sure you have the right samples from your overall population Even a sample as small as ... you're researching are Encyclopedia of Associations (Gale Research) and Business Information Sources (University of California Press) and can usually be found at your local library Research associations ... practically it for you These days, they can look up a lot of what you need on computer databases, and you have a decent chance of walking away with all your answers Printouts may cost several...

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... and Metadata) (MSIL and Metadata) Managed Module Managed Module (MSIL and Metadata) (MSIL and Metadata) Assembly Assembly Lead-in The common language runtime uses an assembly as the functional unit ... Introduction to a Managed Execution Environment Defining a Namespace and a Class Topic Objective To describe how to define namespaces and classes in C# Lead-in C# supports the creation of custom namespaces ... Assembly Manifest An assembly contains a block of data known as a manifest, which is a table in which each entry is the name of a file that is part of the assembly The manifest includes the metadata...

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... suspected at the time, a media-generated `crime wave.' We had a neutral reader/ research- assistant type the articles into a relational database program (QSR NUDEIST) and, at the same time, code the articles ... INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS AN INVESTIGATIVE APPROACH MARK BALNAVES and PETER CAPUTI SAGE Publications London Thousand Oaks ... cases for the `data' to be `reliable' may not arise The order we are seeking, as social scientists or cultural analysts, according to Sacks, is not available as a form of statistical aggregation;...

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... 18 19 20 Pakistan Japan Italy South Africa Argentina USA Canada Netherlands Australia Germany Great Britain Switzerland Finland Norway Sweden Ireland New Zealand Denmark Israel Austria 21 22 23 ... Means and medians are not normally calculated for discrete variables When data from variables vary in magnitude, they are referred to as quantitative data Variables measured on interval or ratio ... idiographer will probably shy away from quantitative data and the use of statistics Those collecting comparative data that lend themselves to statistical analysis will be attracted to different statistical...

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... quantitative researchers Causation and correlation are not the same Correlation of variables does not establish causation The idea that causes can be easily established in social science research ... presidential campaign in a laboratory setting Nor is it possible to manipulate the independent variable in the natural setting ± for example, to manipulate 103 B A L N AV E S A N D C A P U T I political ... individual clues correct but was mistaken about their overall causal significance Social science has the same problem Causality is not easy to establish The idea of `causation' is approached with care...

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... you to construct these plots There are a number of ways to construct a histogram using Excel One way is to make use of the data analysis tools available in the Analysis ToolPak The data analysis ... techniques and measures are appropriate and meaningful for a particular dataset, and then use a spreadsheet or statistical package to carry out the analysis or generate the graphs Statistical knowledge ... indicator of values in your area? Or is this statistic `contaminated'? 134 DATA ! DATA ! DATA ! The mean or average is not always the best indicator of the `typical' value in a set of data Consider...

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... variables Plotting Bivariate Data We can represent bivariate data (pairs of data values) graphically on a twodimensional plot known as a scatterplot Scatterplots are also known as scatter diagrams ... check that the data themselves are valid, that is, that the data points are faithful and accurate representations of the variables being measured If the data are valid then a detailed examination ... B A L N AV E S A N D C A P U T I Having said that this equation is easier computationally, it is usual practice to use a calculator, statistical package or spreadsheet program to compute r rather...

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... hand in hand A guess can be wrong A good research design and good data analysis reduce the chances of bias and error As we have seen, bias and error can happen in many ways They can happen with ... efforts taken by other researchers to maintain anonymity Research data given in confidence not enjoy legal privilege, that is they may be liable to subpoena by a court Research participants may also ... participant) have read the information above Any questions I have asked have been answered to my satisfaction I agree to take part in this activity, however, I know that I may change my mind and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 00:20

... The various MDS packages (LIFA2000, UNIX SSA, MSA, POSA) Geographic packages (Dragnet) Within the limited timeframe, the purpose is to familiarise you with the software that is available and to ... personal disk space (M: drive) at a central location that only you can read You have separate disk space for both Windows 2000 and UNIX, so you can have two separate passwords to increase security, ... the one that doesn‟t work We‟ll go into the PC packages in more detail at a later date Running the mainframe packages is fairly straight forward, but there are actually four parts to the whole...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... There are generally too many distinct values to make it worth drawing a bar chart Instead, the values are grouped into intervals or bands and a bar is drawn for each interval The area of each bar ... SPSS allows the user to manipulate the data in a variety of ways and to produce various graphs and figures that can be added into documents In this practical, you will be asked to open and search ... the variable NAME When you define variables such as sex (nominal data) you want to add value labels in the column called VALUES If you click on the cell a value labels window will appear Across...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... data as familyf.sav Then select DATA, SELECT CASES and then ALL CASES Run the command What happens to the status bar and the case numbers? 24 Deleting Cases Instead of filtering cases we shall ... you a table called Paired Samples Statistics with the mean scores, standard deviations and standard error mean for the two variables The second section is a table called Paired Samples Correlation(s) ... groups each score belongs to So, in this case, there is the variable HWRATIO2 as the dependent variable and NSEX as the independent variable To run the analysis, go to ANALYZE, COMPARE MEANS and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... October 24th ANOVAS This practical will involve familiarising students with the analysis of variance (ANOVA) The ANOVAs used in this practical are when you may want to determine if there is a ... lie, if any The procedure is remarkably similar to carrying out an unrelated samples t-test Go: ANALYZE, COMPARE MEANS, ONE-WAY ANOVA As you can see, the layout of the dialogue box is basically ... samples ANOVA, where ranks are used instead of the actual scores We will run the analysis on the same variables, so go ANALYZE, NONPARAMETRIC TESTS, and K RELATED SAMPLES This is much easier to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... graph should now appear The window where all the graphs are stored is called the Chart Carousel, and can be saved as a separate file The extension for chart files is always “.cht” What is the line ... Chi-Square To run a basic Chi-Square, just move the variable(s) to analyse across and click Ok In this case, move the variable AGEGRP over and run the analysis [NOTE: If you‟re interested in the various ... the toolbar to italicise by hitting the „I‟ button Highlight all of the text and change the font size to 12 pts Type in the other characters, leaving a space between the character and actor names...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... there is a „hard return‟ after each variable, using Edit, Replace if necessary by replacing a space with a hard return from Special Characters), you can select what you want sorted and go to Table, ... (this also relates to inter-rater reliability - more later) This data can be displayed in a number of ways: as percentages, ratios, in a bar chart, cumulative frequency chart, pie chart, etc Each ... compared to the rest A formula always starts with an „=„ sign So, in cell G24 (named „Sum‟) the line should be „=PP+AP+PA+AA‟ If you enter data into the named cells in the data entry area, you...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... distributions are the median and range, as opposed to mean and standard deviation Often, the data you will be using will not allow you to make assumptions about the population parameters, so non-parametric ... the averages of the values, but these averages are drawn from the relative ranking, rather than the actual scores Again, a significant result indicates that differences exist As far as I can tell, ... in our research as long as we are aware of the limitations and act accordingly Nonparametric tests are one of the ways in which we try to deal with our problematic data Referring back to the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... FRIEDMAN AND ANOVAS) Dr Lovie Analysis for single factor designs for ordinal (rank) and interval data and for unrelated and related samples (Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman and ANOVAs for independent and ... DATA III Dr Lovie ANOVAs for independent and repeated measure designs Analyses for multi factor designs for interval data and for unrelated and related samples (ANOVAs for independent and repeated ... (see handbook) WEEK (20th Nov) Professor David Canter MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES, MDS & SORTING TASKS An introduction to multivariate analyses, with a particular emphasis on sorting tasks Canter,D...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... professionalism and patience His wisdom and attitude will always be a guide to me I feel very fortunate to have him as an adviser and a teacher My deepest thanks go to Professor Toh Kim-Chuan and Professor ... that a local optimization method such as variants of the alternating minimization method may be able to find a local minimizer that is close to being globally optimal One possible strategy to ... operator G It is an open question whether such a (tractable) characterization o 1.2 The Moreau-Yosida regularization and spectral operators 23 can be found for L¨wner’s operator G with respect to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:58

... hda1, hda2, and hda3 are all physical volumes We'll initialize hda3 as a physical volume: root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hda3 If you wanted to combine several disks, or partitions you could the same ... that we have a volume group (called skx-vol) we can actually start using it Working with logical volumes What we really want to is create logical volumes which we can mount and actually use In ... be able to see it included in the output of vgscan: root@lappy:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes This may take a while Found volume group "skx-vol" using metadata type lvm2 Now that we have...

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