This article provides comprehensive guidelines for writing a PhD thesis proposal for PhD students but it can also benefit masters students as well. It is a collation of previous articles written on...

This past two weeks I attended a number of proposal defense of PhD students at my University. In this post, I discuss the general format of a proposal defense as well as discuss the most common...

In addition to using descriptive statistics for preliminary analysis, one can also use graphs. Unlike the statistics, graphs offer a visual way of exploring the data further. This post illustrates...

After checking for and correcting errors in your dataset, the next important step before running your analysis is to conduct preliminary analysis to explore the nature of your data. One can conduct...

It is rare to have a dataset that is complete hence it is important to know how to code, define and deal with missing data. This is a comprehensive post about missing values in SPSS. Reasons for...

There are some instances where you have a large dataset but stored in different files, which you need to merge to conduct your analysis. This post demonstrates how to merge different data files into...

Before you start analysing your data, it is important to clean it first so that you start with a clean dataset. Data cleaning in SPSS involves two steps: checking whether the dataset has any errors,...

Power BI Desktop is a free version of Microsoft’s Power BI software. It is available for download and local installation on your laptop or personal computer from the website. As a business...