Collections of group discussions regarding various statistics methods or interpretation of the results.

• Methods and Issues
• Distribution, Measurement Scales and Sampling
• How-To and Whiches

Methods and Issues

1. NSSE Mean Comparison Meaningful? (11/18/2011)
2. Any Methodology in Calculating the Weighted GPA for the Graduate Program Admission? (5/3/2011)
3. Problems of Converting Law School Raw Grading to Forced Mean 2.5 and SD .65 (3/24/2011)
4. Analyzing Survey Items with Multiple Choice (3/24/2011)
5. Likert Scale: 4-point v. 5-points? (8/12/2010)
6. Transforming Course Grades Data (5/28/2010)
7. Question about Change the Survey Scale (6/2/2009)
8. When Should Cohen's D Be Used to Check Effect Size? (3/25/2008)
9. How to Perform Tests of Significance? (2/16/2007)
10. Why Researchers Conduct Significant Tests on Population Statistics? (9/15/2006)
11. Discussion on the Use of ARIMA in Higher Ed. (2/28/2006)
12. Comparisons of SAS and SPSS (2/9/2006)
13. Discussion on Raising Admission Creteria and Retention (11/30/2004)
14. Discussion on Ordinal Regression (8/31/2004)
15. Amount of Scholarship on Freshmen's Decision to Enroll (10/31/2003)
16. Comparisons of several clustering and grouping statistics methods (7/20/2003)
17. Collinearity, Missing Value and Adjusted R2 in Multiple Regression Analysis (6/30/2003)
18. Using HLM and SEM (5/31/2003)
19. Attributes of Exemplary Research Manuscripts Employing Quantitative Analyses (A paper presented in the 2003 ASHE, Sacramento) (11/21/2002)
20. Post hoc tests following ANOVA (8/31/2002)
21. Using Performance in Foundation Courses to Predict Performance in Related Courses (8/31/2002)

Distribution, Measurement Scales and Sampling

1. Representative Sample (8/12/2010)
2. When the Response Rate Is Too Low (1/31/2005)
3. When The Sample Size Is Too Small (3/31/2004)
4. When Dataset Is Skewed (11/30/2003)
5. How to Handle Skewed Survey Results? (8/31/2003)
6. Random Sampling (6/15/1999)

How-To and Whiches

1. How to Project Graduation Numbers? (8/3/2010)
2. How to Report the Neutral Percentage for a Likert Scale Question? (1/24/2010)
3. Calculate CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) in Excel (7/6/2009)
4. How to Conduct Inter-rater Reliability Tests? (2/27/2007)
5. How to Calculate Effect Size in SPSS? (7/18/2006)
6. Which Test or Analysis for Finding Factors That Relate to Retention? (6/8/2006)
7. How to Calculate Significance of Proportion Differences? (2/28/2006)
8. How to Compare Two Sets of Data? (2/9/2006)
9. How to Calculate Race Index? (2/9/2006)
10. Which Survey Is Better for Enrollment Management? (2/9/2006)
11. More Discussions on How to Deal with Neutral Answer in a Survey (9/10/2003)
12. How to Deal with Neutral Answer in a Survey (4/30/2003)
13. How to Interprete Multiple Regression Results? (3/31/2003)
14. How to Compare Survival Rates? (1/31/2003)
15. Which Coefficient to Use? (10/31/2002)
16. How to Calculate Confidence Interval and Issues Related with the Calc. (2/28/2002)
17. How to Interprete Logistic Regression Results? (12/15/1998)