Welcome
What are you trying to do?
A thesis or dissertation in government, parastatals and regulators.
Your path
Create the study
Title, purpose, ethics reference and a retention period. The purpose has to be specific enough for a respondent to know what they are agreeing to.
Build the questionnaire
The Studio has an item bank of validated scales you can insert whole, with the reverse-scored items already marked.
Open collection and share the link
Twelve NDPA conditions are checked before the first respondent. Fix what it names and the gate opens.
Analyse
Choose what you want to find out. Assumption checks run whether or not you ask, and the wrong test is refused.
Export the chapter
APA 7 tables and sentences in Word, with the Method section assembled from what the study already recorded.
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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