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...

Simple linear regression is used to model the influence of one variable, called the independent variable or predictor variable on another variable, called the dependent or outcome variable. In this...

Partial correlation is almost similar to Pearson product-moment correlation only that it accounts for the influence of another variable, which is thought to be correlated with the two variables of...

In this post, I discuss what correlation is, the two most common types of correlation statistics used (Pearson and Spearman), and how to conduct correlation analysis in SPSS. What is correlation...

The normality assumption states that the data is normally distributed. This post touches on the importance of normality of data and illustrates how to check for normality of data in SPSS. Why...

Outliers are data values that are different from most of the data values in a dataset. They can either be extremely high or extremely low compared to the rest of the data values. This post...

For PhD students and other academics, attending and presenting at a scientific conference is a good avenue for sharing, disseminating and obtaining feedback on one's research. This post covers...