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What are you trying to do?
A study for my organisation in government, parastatals and regulators.
Your path
Create the study and set the discipline
The discipline decides what every later page shows you.
Decide whether people are involved
If your data is about machines, facilities or finances rather than people, declare no human subjects and the data protection conditions do not apply. The declaration is checked.
Collect or import
Collect through ZStat with consent and withdrawal, or bring a CSV, Excel or SPSS file you already have.
Analyse and compare
Between sites, periods, groups or programmes - with the effect size, because significance alone does not tell a manager whether it matters.
Produce the assurance pack
Generated from your own installation, for a funder or a data protection officer.
What people in your field ask
State the decision - assemble the administrative data - test whether the pattern is real - publish with the method attached.
- Is the indicator actually moving, or is it noise?control chart
- Are we improving over time?arima
- Do states, LGAs or offices differ?one way anova
- Where is the problem concentrated?morans i
- Several units over several years - what explains the difference?panel regression
Watch for: Publishing a figure without the method attached. Every result here carries the digest of the data behind it, which is what turns a contested statistic into a checkable one.
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