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Nebraska Evaluation and Research Center

NEAR Center consultants can help interpret and integrate the results from your analyses.

Please note, consultants will not perform your method, analysis, or results write-ups.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand different analyses.

Data integration procedures

NEAR Center consultants can help you generate the relevant statistical output you need.

NEAR Center consultants have access to SPSS, SAS, MPlus, R, and other statistical packages. Output can be saved into various different formats, including Word documents, Excel sheets, PDF files, and more.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand the resulting output.

Generating statistical output

NEAR Center consultants can help you choose the best design to answer your research questions.

Please note, consultants cannot help you decide on your research questions.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand different analyses.

Qualitative design selection

NEAR Center consultants can assist you in the creation of your measurement instruments.

Consultants can assist in assessing reliability, examining evidence of validity, factor analysis, scales of measurement, and other facets of instrument design.

Please note, NEAR Center consultants are not content area experts, it is your job to understand and inform the consultants about your area of interest.

Instrument development

NEAR Center consultants can help you decide on sampling procedures targeting your population of interest.

Consultants can assist in selecting a sampling procedure, pinpoint issues in selection, examine issues of non-response, and examine other aspects of sampling.

Please note that NEAR Center consultants will not perform sampling for you.

Sampling plans and data collection protocols

Sampling procedures

Mixed Methods design selection

NEAR Center consultants can assist you in deciding on the sample size necessary to perform your choice of analysis with adequate statistical power to accurately assess your research questions.

Please note, clients should have an idea of the analysis they want to run as well as the effects they are interested in order for consultants to more efficiently help with sample size and power questions. 

Clients are recommended to review previous literature in their area of interest for examples of effect sizes. Bringing related literature for consultants to examine can also help.

Sample size and power

NEAR Center consultants can help you choose the best analysis to answer your research questions.

Please note, consultants cannot help you decide on your research questions.

NEAR Center consultants have access to SPSS, SAS, MPlus, R, and other statistical packages.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand different analyses.

Choice of analysis

NEAR Center consultants can help you prepare your data file to get it ready for analysis.

Consultants can assist in recoding variables, computing new variables, converting between formats, and other dataset related tasks.

Please note that the NEAR Center does not do data entry.

Data file preparation

NEAR Center consultants can help you organize your data file to get it ready for analysis.

Consultants can assist in recoding variables, computing new variables, converting between wide and long formats, and other dataset related tasks.

Please note that the NEAR Center does not do data entry.

Setting up data files

Not quite sure what you need?

Meet with a NEAR Center consultant to discuss what you are trying to do.

Other Consultations

NEAR Center consultants can help interpret the results from your statistical analyses.

Whether consultants created the output, or you generated it yourself, the NEAR Center can help you decipher your output.

Please note, consultants will not perform your method, analysis, or results write-ups.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand different analyses.

Interpretation of analysis

NEAR Center consultants can help interpret the results from your analyses.

Please note, consultants will not perform your method, analysis, or results write-ups.

NEAR Center consultants can offer resources to help you understand different analyses.

Data analysis

Introduction to qualitative data analysis software

NEAR Center consultants can help introduce you to qualitative data analysis software.

Consultants have qualitative software such as MAXQDA available.

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Nebraska Evaluation and Research Center

Sampling plans and data collection protocols

October 2024

Nebraska Evaluation and Research Center

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