Welcome

What are you trying to do?

Something I need to watch regularly in sociology, development and social work.

Before you start. Monitors currently run from the command line rather than from a page. The engine works and is tested; the interface for setting them up is still being built, so this route is the least finished of the four.

Your path

Create the study

One study holds the whole series.

Chart it before you judge it

A control chart separates ordinary variation from a real change. Most month-to-month movement is noise, and acting on it makes a process less stable rather than more.

Set up a monitor

A saved analysis with a cadence. It re-runs and reports what moved, without claiming the movement is significant - two consecutive estimates are not independent samples.

Read the series, not the last point

Twelve points tell you what one never can.

What people in your field ask

In sociology, development and social workthe full guide

Sample honestly - describe who you reached and who you missed - compare or model - state what the design cannot support.

Who did I actually reach?descriptives
Do the groups differ?chi square independence
What predicts the outcome?ols regression
Are people within a community more alike?multilevel mixed
Are there natural groupings in the data?multiple correspondence

Watch for: Calling a convenience sample random because a spreadsheet shuffled it.

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