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1. Tools to Expedite your Proposal,
IRB, and Results Chapter

2. Anxiety is pain in the
future.

3. Today’s Webinar
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Start with the methodology chapter
The Hourglass Metaphor
Methodology Basics
Results Chapter
Discussion Chapter
Graduate Student Toolkit
Please feel free to ask questions throughout the webinar in the chat
pane to your right

4. Start with the
Methodology
Chapter
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Things (even when they’re
named “Chapter 3”)

5. The Hourglass
Metaphor
Intro/Lit review
Methodology
Results
Discussion

6. Methodology
Basics
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Clear research questions
Participants
Instruments/materials
Procedure
Data analysis plan
Sample size

7. Clear Research
Questions
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Statistical language
Differences, influence, or relationships
Know your IV’s and DV’s
Keep your terms consistent
Match the number of research questions and
hypotheses
• Make it understandable to lay readers (or waste a
month of your life)

8. Participants
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Can you secure them
Can you secure enough of
them
Don’t worry about
representativeness
Incentivize if necessary

9. Instruments/Materials
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Use valid and reliable instruments
Don’t make your own survey
Use secondary data if possible

10. Procedure
• How are you going to administer those
instruments to those participants?
• Paper and pencil, web-based, or interview?

11. Data Analysis Plan
• Selecting the correct analysis
• Level of measurement of scales and
phraseology of research questions
• Assumptions of analyses
• Justification of analyses
(SS Membership solution)

12. Sample Size
• The 2 types of sample sizes in the world
• Power analysis
(SS Membership solution)

13. Results Chapter
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Descriptive statistics
Statistical analyses
Assumptions of analyses
Write-up results

14. Descriptive Statistics
• Reliability of scales
• Frequencies and percentages for
nominal and ordinal level variables
• Means, standard deviations, and
range for continuous level variables

15. Statistical Analyses
Relationship questions
• Correlation
• Chi-square
Prediction questions
• Regression
• Logistic regression
Difference questions
• ANOVA
• ANCOVA
• Repeated-measure ANOVA
• T-tests
• Wilcoxon
• Mann-Whitney

16. Assumptions of Analyses
• Correlation—scatterplot
• ANOVA/t-test—
homogeneity of variance and normality
• Regression—outliers, mulitcollinearity and
homoscadacity, homogeneity of regression
• AnCova-DV and covariate are related
• Chi-square—expected value of 5 within each cell

17. Discussion Chapter
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Clear support or non-support for hypotheses
Practical and theoretical implications of findings
Generalizability and limitations
Future research

18. The prescription for
anxiety
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Preparation

19. Membership Resources
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Dissertation Template
Goal Visualization Timeline
Choosing your statistical analyses
Sample size/Power analysis generator
Data analysis plan templates
Statistical Analysis: A Manual on Dissertation Statistics in
SPSS
• Video Tutorials

20. Dissertation
Template
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Chapters 1-5 guidelines (what each paragraph contains)
Table of contents with hyperlinks to particular chapters
Page numbering (including roman numeral front matter)
Reference examples
Average word count per section
APA 6th Edition formatting
Automatic Bookmarks (clickable to section)

21. Goal Visualization
Timeline

22. Choosing Your
Statistical Analysis

23. Sample Size
Write-up Generator
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ANCOVA
ANOVA
Correlation
Canonical analysis
Chi-square
Dependent sample t-test
Discriminant analysis
Independent t-test
Linear regression
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Logistic regression
MANCOVA
Mann-Whitney U
MANOVA
One sample t-test
Multiple regression
Test of independence
Wilcoxon signed rank

24. Example of
sample size
write-up

25. Data Analysis Plan
Templates
• Bivariate (Pearson) Correlation
• Chi-Square Test of Independence
• Dependent (Paired) Sample
t-test
• Factorial ANCOVA
• Factorial ANOVA
• Independent Sample t Test
• Linear Regression
• Logistic Regression
• Mann-Whitney U Test
• Mediation
• Moderation
• Multinominal Logistic Regression
• Multiple Linear Regression
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One Sample t-test
One Way ANOVA
One Way MANCOVA
One Way ANCOVA
Ordinal Regression
Partial Correlation
Point-Biserial Correlation
Repeated Measures ANCOVA
Repeated Measures ANOVA
Spearman Rank Correlation
Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
Z Test of Two Proportions

26. Data Analysis Plan
Template Example

27. Results Chapter
• Video Tutorials
• SPSS Manual

28. Statistics Solutions Pro
www.StatisticsSolutionsPro.com
• Easy—no software to learn or nuances of the
analysis assumptions to examine
• Convenient—no download necessary

29. Feedback and What
You Need
I’d like your feedback on the Webcast
I’d like to know what else you’d like in upcoming webinars
Send comments to: James@StatisticsSolutions.com

30. Have the courage to move forward
Believe in yourself
Get the help you need

31. Thank you!
Join us for our next webinar:
Navigating Graduate School
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
9:00 PM- 10:00 PM ET, 6:00 PM-7:00PM PT