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Collections of group discussions regarding various statistics methods or interpretation of the results.

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Methods and Issues

  1. When Should Cohen's D Be Used to Check Effect Size? (3/25/2008)
  2. How to Perform Tests of Significance? (2/16/2007)
  3. Why Researchers Conduct Significant Tests on Population Statistics? (9/15/2006)
  4. Discussion on the Use of ARIMA in Higher Ed. (2/28/2006)
  5. Comparisons of SAS and SPSS (2/9/2006)
  6. Discussion on Raising Admission Creteria and Retention (11/30/2004)
  7. Discussion on Ordinal Regression (8/31/2004)
  8. Amount of Scholarship on Freshmen's Decision to Enroll (10/31/2003)
  9. Comparisons of several clustering and grouping statistics methods (7/20/2003)
  10. Collinearity, Missing Value and Adjusted R2 in Multiple Regression Analysis (6/30/2003)
  11. Using HLM and SEM (5/31/2003)
  12. Attributes of Exemplary Research Manuscripts Employing Quantitative Analyses (A paper presented in the 2003 ASHE, Sacramento) (11/21/2002)
  13. Post hoc tests following ANOVA (8/31/2002)
  14. Using Performance in Foundation Courses to Predict Performance in Related Courses (8/31/2002)
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Distribution, Measurement Scales and Sampling

  1. When the Response Rate Is Too Low (1/31/2005)
  2. When The Sample Size Is Too Small (3/31/2004)
  3. When Dataset Is Skewed (11/30/2003)
  4. How to Handle Skewed Survey Results? (8/31/2003)
  5. Random Sampling (6/15/1999)
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How-To and Whiches

  1. How to Conduct Inter-rater Reliability Tests? (2/27/2007)
  2. How to Calculate Effect Size in SPSS? (7/18/2006)
  3. Which Test or Analysis for Finding Factors That Relate to Retention? (6/8/2006)
  4. How to Calculate Significance of Proportion Differences? (2/28/2006)
  5. How to Calculate Race Index? (2/9/2006)
  6. How to Compare Two Sets of Data? (2/9/2006)
  7. Which Survey Is Better for Enrollment Management? (2/9/2006)
  8. More Discussions on How to Deal with Neutral Answer in a Survey (9/10/2003)
  9. How to Deal with Neutral Answer in a Survey (4/30/2003)
  10. How to Interprete Multiple Regression Results? (3/31/2003)
  11. How to Compare Survival Rates? (1/31/2003)
  12. Which Coefficient to Use? (10/31/2002)
  13. How to Calculate Confidence Interval and Issues Related with the Calc. (2/28/2002)
  14. How to Interprete Logistic Regression Results? (12/15/1998)
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