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Applied Statistics, Spring 2009
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I designed the course for graduate students who use statistics in their research, plan to use statistics, or need to interpret statistical analyses performed by others. The primary audience are graduate students in the environmental sciences, but the course should benefit just about anyone who is in graduate school in the natural sciences. The course is not designed for those who want a simple overview of statistics; we’ll learn by analyzing real data. This course or equivalent is required for UMB Biology and EEOS Ph.D. students. It is a recommended course for several of the intercampus graduate school of marine science program options.

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Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
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Full Course
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UMass Boston
Provider Set:
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
Author:
Eugene Gallagher
Date Added:
10/14/2015
Archival, Case Studies and Natural Observations
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By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the different research methods used by psychologistsDiscuss the strengths and weaknesses of case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys, and archival research

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Psychology
Social Science
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Module
Author:
Melissa Tapia
Date Added:
03/18/2019
Archival Research, Case Studies, and Developmental Research Designs
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After reading this module, you will be able to:Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of archivall research and case studiesDescribe longitudinal, cross-sectional, and sequential research designs

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Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Lisa Bauer
Date Added:
03/15/2019
Archival Research, Case Studies, and Developmental Research Designs
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After reading this module, you will be able to:Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of archivall research and case studiesDescribe longitudinal, cross-sectional, and sequential research designs

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Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Lisa Bauer
Date Added:
03/18/2019
Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
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Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments. Additional chapters cover understanding types of sources, searching for information, and avoiding plagiarism. Each chapter includes self-quizzes and activities to reinforce core concepts and help you apply them. There are also appendices for quick reference on search tools, copyright basics, and fair use.

Subject:
Education
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Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Ohio State University
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Pressbooks
Author:
Cheryl Lowry
Date Added:
01/01/2015
Conducting Psychology Research in the Real World
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Because of its ability to determine cause-and-effect relationships, the laboratory experiment is traditionally considered the method of choice for psychological science. One downside, however, is that as it carefully controls conditions and their effects, it can yield findings that are out of touch with reality and have limited use when trying to understand real-world behavior. This module highlights the importance of also conducting research outside the psychology laboratory, within participants’ natural, everyday environments, and reviews existing methodologies for studying daily life.

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Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
Diener Education Fund
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Noba
Author:
Matthias R. Mehl
Date Added:
10/28/2022
DRUG TARGETS (2014)
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Drug research has contributed more to the progress of medicine during the past century than any other scientific factor. With lecture snippets of Gerhard Domagk, Gertrude Elion and Brian Kobilka this Mini Lectures introduces to the fundamental research methods of drug targeting.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Provider Set:
Mini Lectures
Date Added:
04/13/2018
Degrees of Freedom in Planning, Running, Analyzing, and Reporting Psychological Studies: A Checklist to Avoid p-Hacking
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The designing, collecting, analyzing, and reporting of psychological studies entail many choices that are often arbitrary. The opportunistic use of these so-called researcher degrees of freedom aimed at obtaining statistically significant results is problematic because it enhances the chances of false positive results and may inflate effect size estimates. In this review article, we present an extensive list of 34 degrees of freedom that researchers have in formulating hypotheses, and in designing, running, analyzing, and reporting of psychological research. The list can be used in research methods education, and as a checklist to assess the quality of preregistrations and to determine the potential for bias due to (arbitrary) choices in unregistered studies.

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Psychology
Social Science
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Reading
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Frontiers in Psychology
Author:
Coosje L. S. Veldkamp
Hilde E. M. Augusteijn
Jelte M. Wicherts
Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
Marjan Bakker
Robbie C. M. van Aert
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08/07/2020
Effect of Population Heterogenization on the Reproducibility of Mouse Behavior: A Multi-Laboratory Study
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In animal experiments, animals, husbandry and test procedures are traditionally standardized to maximize test sensitivity and minimize animal use, assuming that this will also guarantee reproducibility. However, by reducing within-experiment variation, standardization may limit inference to the specific experimental conditions. Indeed, we have recently shown in mice that standardization may generate spurious results in behavioral tests, accounting for poor reproducibility, and that this can be avoided by population heterogenization through systematic variation of experimental conditions. Here, we examined whether a simple form of heterogenization effectively improves reproducibility of test results in a multi-laboratory situation. Each of six laboratories independently ordered 64 female mice of two inbred strains (C57BL/6NCrl, DBA/2NCrl) and examined them for strain differences in five commonly used behavioral tests under two different experimental designs. In the standardized design, experimental conditions were standardized as much as possible in each laboratory, while they were systematically varied with respect to the animals' test age and cage enrichment in the heterogenized design. Although heterogenization tended to improve reproducibility by increasing within-experiment variation relative to between-experiment variation, the effect was too weak to account for the large variation between laboratories. However, our findings confirm the potential of systematic heterogenization for improving reproducibility of animal experiments and highlight the need for effective and practicable heterogenization strategies.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Reading
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PLOS ONE
Author:
Benjamin Zipser
Berry Spruijt
Britta Schindler
Chadi Touma
Christiane Brandwein
David P. Wolfer
Hanno Würbel
Johanneke van der Harst
Joseph P. Garner
Lars Lewejohann
Niek van Stipdonk
Norbert Sachser
Peter Gass
S. Helene Richter
Sabine Chourbaji
Vootele Võikar
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Exercise 2- Reading and Outlining an Empirical Article
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This exercise guides students through reading and outlining an empirical journal article. It reviews the basic structure of empirical journal articles and prompts students to take detailed notes of each article as they read.

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Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Matthew DeCarlo
Date Added:
06/22/2018
Exercise 3- Reading and Outlining a Non-Empirical Article.docx
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This exercise guides students through how to outline a non-empirical (theoretical, philosophical, practical) journal article. Students are prompted to take detailed notes as they read within a structured format.

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Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Matthew DeCarlo
Date Added:
06/22/2018
Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy: Theory and Problems
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Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy Theory and Problems is designed to help students develop the fundamental mathematical and quantitative literacy required to navigate and interpret evidence-based Biomedical data. This will provide students with the skills and confidence to habitually question any quantitative data they come across and to use these skills to make informed judgements regarding their veracity.

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
La Trobe University
Date Added:
05/17/2023
Foundations of Public Health: Pub Hlth 200 (English)
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This course presents the overarching framework, principles, and core responsibilities of public health research and practice from a multidisciplinary perspective. The course also provides the necessary foundation for further studies toward advanced cross-cutting approaches essential for public health practice.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Full Course
Author:
Oladele Ogunseitan
Date Added:
01/15/2019
General Psychology for Honors Students
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What are the most effective methods to study for a test? What are the meanings of dreams? How do illusions work? With whom are you most likely to fall in love? These are just a few of the questions that have been asked by psychologists since the birth of the field as an area of scientific research in the 1870’s. This text surveys the basic concepts, theories, and pivotal findings over the past 100 years in the science of Psychology, with special emphasis on contemporary concepts and findings focused on the relation of the brain to normal and pathological behaviors. Psychology has long evolved past the psychodynamic influence to include biological, social, learning, motivational, and developmental perspectives, to name a few. Contemporary psychologists go beyond philosophical or anecdotal speculation and rely on empirical evidence to inform their conclusions. Similarly, readers will push beyond pre-existing schemas and misconceptions of the field of psychology to an understanding of contemporary quantitative research methods as they are used to predict and test human behavior.

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Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
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University of Missouri St. Louis
Author:
Kate Votaw
Date Added:
09/25/2020
Graduate research methods in social work: a project based approach
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We designed our book to help graduate social work students through every step of the research process, from conceptualization to dissemination. Our textbook centers cultural humility, information literacy, pragmatism, and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods. It includes extensive content on literature reviews, cultural bias and respectfulness, and qualitative methods, in contrast to traditionally used commercial textbooks in social work research.

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Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Cory Cummings
Kate Agnelli
Matt DeCarlo
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Human Factors Engineering
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This course is designed to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with a fundamental understanding of human factors that must be taken into account in the design and engineering of complex aviation and space systems. The primary focus is the derivation of human engineering design criteria from sensory, motor, and cognitive sources to include principles of displays, controls and ergonomics, manual control, the nature of human error, basic experimental design, and human-computer interaction in supervisory control settings. Undergraduate students will demonstrate proficiency through aviation accident case presentations, quizzes, homework assignments, and hands-on projects. Graduate students will complete all the undergraduate assignments; however, they are expected to complete a research-oriented project with a final written report and an oral presentation.

Subject:
Applied Science
Astronomy
Computer Science
Engineering
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Chandra, Divya
Young, Laurence
Date Added:
09/01/2011
IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23: A Basic Tutorial
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This book is intended for those who want to learn the basics of SPSS. It can be used as a text in a class or by those working independently. Each chapter has instructions that guide you through a series of problems, as well as graphics showing you what your screen should look like at various steps in the process. There are also exercises at the end of each chapter for further practice and more exercises and teaching modules are on the Teaching Resources page of the Social Science Research and Instructional Center (SSRIC) website.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Social Science Research & Instructional Center
Author:
Edward E. Nelson
Elizabeth Ness Nelson
James Ross
John L. Korey
Laura Hecht
Linda Fiddler
Nan Chico
Richard A. Shaffer
Date Added:
12/09/2022
Impact of genetic background and experimental reproducibility on identifying chemical compounds with robust longevity effects
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Limiting the debilitating consequences of ageing is a major medical challenge of our time. Robust pharmacological interventions that promote healthy ageing across diverse genetic backgrounds may engage conserved longevity pathways. Here we report results from the Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program in assessing longevity variation across 22 Caenorhabditis strains spanning 3 species, using multiple replicates collected across three independent laboratories. Reproducibility between test sites is high, whereas individual trial reproducibility is relatively low. Of ten pro-longevity chemicals tested, six significantly extend lifespan in at least one strain. Three reported dietary restriction mimetics are mainly effective across C. elegans strains, indicating species and strain-specific responses. In contrast, the amyloid dye ThioflavinT is both potent and robust across the strains. Our results highlight promising pharmacological leads and demonstrate the importance of assessing lifespans of discrete cohorts across repeat studies to capture biological variation in the search for reproducible ageing interventions.

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Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Reading
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Nature Communications
Author:
Anna B. Crist
Anna C. Foulger
Anna L. Coleman-Hulbert
Brian Onken
Carolina Ibanez-Ventoso
Christina Chang
Christine A. Sedore
Daniel Edgar
Dipa Bhaumik
Elizabeth A. Chao
Erik Johnson
Esteban Chen
Girish Harinath
Gordon J. Lithgow
Jailynn Harke
Jason L Kish
Jian Xue
John H. Willis
June Hope
Kathleen J. Dumas
Manish Chamoli
Mark Lucanic
Mary Anne Royal
Max Guo
Michael P. Presley
Michelle K. Chen
Monica Driscoll
Patrick C. Phillips
Shaunak Kamat
Shobhna Patel
Suzanne Angeli
Suzhen Guo
Theo Garrett
W. Todd Plummer
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Instead of "playing the game" it is time to change the rules: Registered Reports at AIMS Neuroscience and beyond
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The last ten years have witnessed increasing awareness of questionable research practices (QRPs) in the life sciences, including p-hacking, HARKing, lack of replication, publication bias, low statistical power and lack of data sharing (see Figure 1). Concerns about such behaviours have been raised repeatedly for over half a century but the incentive structure of academia has not changed to address them. Despite the complex motivations that drive academia, many QRPs stem from the simple fact that the incentives which offer success to individual scientists conflict with what is best for science. On the one hand are a set of gold standards that centuries of the scientific method have proven to be crucial for discovery: rigour, reproducibility, and transparency. On the other hand are a set of opposing principles born out of the academic career model: the drive to produce novel and striking results, the importance of confirming prior expectations, and the need to protect research interests from competitors. Within a culture that pressures scientists to produce rather than discover, the outcome is a biased and impoverished science in which most published results are either unconfirmed genuine discoveries or unchallenged fallacies. This observation implies no moral judgement of scientists, who are as much victims of this system as they are perpetrators.

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Life Science
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
AIMS Neuroscience
Author:
Christopher D. Chambers
Eva Feredoes
Peter Etchells
Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy
Date Added:
08/07/2020