Avoiding Common Mistakes in Think Tank and NGO Training

Maintaining your focus in focus groups: avoiding common mistakes.

Focus groups are used frequently in nursing research as a method for collecting qualitative data. However, due to inadequate planning or execution, the results can be of poor quality or even worthless. A well-defined purpose, carefully planned environment, and well trained personnel are discussed as the cornerstones to focus group success. This article sets the stage with a description of a wel...

Women and HIV Think Tank

A literature review on sex differences and women's issues in HIV Women's bodies differ in essential ways from men's. That difference is locked into the genes from the moment of conception. Growth and development unfold the sexual dimorphism so that it exists on every level of biological organization, from the cell to the whole organism. The result is a male-female variation in relationship with...

Nonparametric kernel methods with errors-in-variables: constructing estimators, computing them, and avoiding common mistakes

Estimating a curve nonparametrically from data measured with error is a difficult problem that has been studied by many authors. Constructing a consistent estimator in this context can sometimes be quite challenging, and in this paper we review some of the tools that have been developed in the literature for kernel-based approaches, founded on the Fourier transform and a more general unbiased s...

How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Quantitative Political Science

How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Quantitative Political Science