This 13th article of the Basics of Research series is first in a short series on statistical analysis. These articles will discuss creating your statistical analysis plan, levels of measurement, descriptive statistics, probability theory, inferential statistics, and general considerations for interpretation of the results of a statistical analysis.

The current corpus study intended to examine and compare the use of hedges boosters in discussion sections English Language Teaching Physiotherapy research articles that were published between 2020 2022. This also aimed discover frequency types two disciplines. 15 from each disciple analyzed through descriptive statistics. chi-square test was run analyze data determine whether there is a statis...

background & aim: nowadays tuberculosis (tb) is one of the public health concerns in iran. the present study aimed to examine the clinical epidemiology and treatment findings of tuberculosis in babol, northern iran. methods & materials: this cross-sectional study was carried out on medical records of tuberculosis registry pertained to health center of babol, mazandaran province, iran. the inves...

recording nursing reports is considered as a quality assurance tool for patients and nurses. nowadays, the presence of electronic health record systems is an indicator of development. studies on advantages and disadvantages of the electronic and manual recording methods have shown different results. in this study, electronic and manual recording of nursing reports were compared from the perspec...

the purpose of the survey was to study the relationship between the rate of addiction to internet with academic motivation and social development. the method of the research was descriptive correlation. the statistical population included all high school students of mazandaran province which consisted 99328 ones. 417 students were selected as statistical sample. yang’s internet addiction questi...

some lesions in the oral cavity and mostly on gingiva have predominant predilection towards females, and mostly occur in the first four decades of life when changes in sex hormone levels in blood are obvious. the present study aimed to investigate the presence and distribution of estrogen and progesterone receptors in peripheral giant cell granuloma (pgcg), pyogenic granuloma (pg) and periphera...

This paper gives a summary of the results of a radio frequency interference mitigation project. Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a problem radio astronomers are facing increasingly in recent years. The goals of this project were: 1) investigate the cost vs. benefits of real-time RFI flagging, 2) determine ways of statistically flagging RFI by doing noise simulations, and 3) to develop a vi...

Experimental and cross-sectional studies indicate that perceptions of the eating and drinking behavior of one's peers (perceived descriptive peer norms) are associated with the types, frequency and quantity of food, and beverages a person chooses to consume. At present, we know very little about the longitudinal association between perceived descriptive peer norms and future eating or drinking ...

In this document a new approach on tuning frequency estimation based on circular statistics is presented. Two methods are introduced: the calculation of the tuning frequency over an entire audio piece, and the estimation of an adapting reference frequency for a single voice. The results for the tuning frequency estimation look very good for audio pieces where the dominant voices are tuned close...