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...

I used KoboToolbox to collect data for my PhD studies and I found it quite easy to use and deploy. In this first of a series of articles on KoboToolbox, I provide an overview of what KoboToolbox is,...

The PhD journey is often likened to a marathon, not a sprint. Like a marathon, there will be moments of sheer determination, and moments of self-doubt and temptations to quit. In this article, I...

In the previous post, we looked at simple linear regression in SPSS, where only one explanatory variable was considered. In real-life scenarios, we will always have more than one variable explaining...

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...