Defending your analysis
The questions examiners and reviewers actually ask, each with a defensible answer - why this test, why this sample size, why these covariates, why did you exclude those cases, is this causal, what if the assumption was violated.
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What this module covers
the questions examiners and reviewers actually ask, each with a defensible answer - why this test, why this sample size, why these covariates, why did you exclude those cases, is this causal, what if the assumption was violated; how to answer when the honest answer is "that is a limitation"; having your syntax and cleaning log ready as evidence; what to do when a reviewer asks for a reanalysis; how to disagree with a reviewer politely and successfully.
By the end of it
- The questions examiners and reviewers actually ask, each with a defensible answer - why this test, why this sample size, why these covariates, why did you exclude those cases, is this causal, what if the assumption was violated
- How to answer when the honest answer is "that is a limitation"
- Having your syntax and cleaning log ready as evidence
- What to do when a reviewer asks for a reanalysis
- How to disagree with a reviewer politely and successfully