The Analysis Factor
Statistical Consulting, Resources, and Statistics Workshops for Researchers
One activity in data analysis that can seem impossible is the quest to find the right analysis.
I applaud the conscientiousness and integrity that underlies this quest. The problem is in many data situations there isn’t one right analysis.
[Read more…] about What to Do When You Can’t Run the Ideal Analysis
The first real data set I ever analyzed was from my senior honors thesis as an undergraduate psychology major. I had taken both intro stats and an ANOVA class, and I applied all my new skills with gusto, analyzing every which way.
It wasn’t too many years into graduate school that I realized that these data analyses were a bit haphazard and not at all well thought out. 20 years of data analysis experience later and I realized that’s just a symptom of being an inexperienced data analyst.
But even experienced data analysts can get off track, especially with large data sets with many variables. It’s just so easy to try one thing, then another, and pretty soon you’ve spent weeks getting nowhere. [Read more...] about Strategies for Choosing and Planning a Statistical Analysis
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