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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...

You have entered your data into Stata. What’s next now? Before you carry out any analysis, it is important to explore and understand your data. This will enable you to perform any required data...

How do you enter data into Stata? In this post, I will discuss and illustrate three main methods of data entry in Stata: the manual entry method, the import method, and the copy and paste...

What is Stata? Stata is a statistical software package used for data entry, data cleaning, data manipulation, data analysis, and data visualization in quantitative research studies. It was...

After you are done collecting data in Kobo Toolbox, you can perform some preliminary data management in Kobo Toolbox before exporting the data to another program for analysis. In this post, I share...

Before you start collecting data using Kobo Collect, it is important to be aware of the various Kobo Collect settings that are available. In this post, I discuss and illustrate the different types...

In the previous post, I illustrated how to download the Kobo Collect application and how to configure it in preparation for data collection. In this post, I illustrate how to collect data using Kobo...