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Web Resources for Research Methodology
Links collected per module. Use in this order: easy explanation → official reference → practice resource.
Module 1: Introduction & Philosophy
- Easy second explanation: Wikipedia: Research
- Official technical reference: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scientific Method
- Practice resource: MIT Writing Center: Research and theses
Module 2: Research Problem
- Easy second explanation: University of Minnesota: Formulating a Research Problem
- Official reference: Ridsdale & Diodo: Selecting a Research Topic
- Practice resource: Fishbone / 5-whys templates (search "Ishikawa diagram template").
Module 3: Research Design
- Easy second explanation: Khan Academy: Experimental design
- Official reference: University of California, Irvine research methods
- Practice resource: Statsmodels / SciPy for simulation.
Module 4: Measurement & Scaling
- Easy second explanation: Questionnaire scale types (NOIR)
- Official reference: Likert scale origin (Rensis Likert, 1932)
- Practice resource: SPSS tutorials: reliability and validity
Module 5: Sampling
- Easy second explanation: Khan Academy: Sampling
- Official reference: World Health Organization: Sample size
- Practice resource: OpenEpi sample-size calculator
Module 6: Data Processing & Analysis
- Easy second explanation: Khan Academy: Statistics and probability
- Official reference: RDocumentation: base stats
- Practice resource: GraphPad QuickCalcs
Module 7: Probability
- Easy second explanation: Khan Academy: Probability
- Official reference: MIT 6.041: Probabilistic Systems Analysis
- Practice resource: Stat Trek: probability
Module 8: Statistical Methods
- Easy second explanation: Khan Academy: Statistics
- Official reference: NIST/SEMATEL e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
- Practice resource: Social Science Statistics
Module 9: Creativity, Writing & IPR
- Easy second explanation: OECD: Intellectual Property
- Official reference: ICMJE Recommendations (authorship)
- Practice resource: Overleaf LaTeX templates
Module 10: Ethics
- Easy second explanation: The Belmont Report
- Official reference: WHO: Ethics & Ethics Review
- Practice resource: ICMJE forms & policy search
Module 11: Research in CS
- Easy second explanation: ACM: Computing Classification System
- Official reference: NSF Computer Systems Research
- Practice resource: Papers with Code — datasets, benchmarks, baselines.
Citation & reference managers
- Zotero: https://www.zotero.org
- Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com
- BibTeX guide: https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex