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Empowering the World’s Researchers Elite Research, LLC is a global provider of research and statistical consulting. Our business is to support corporate, nonprofit, academic, and medical researchers in research design, data analysis, and the reporting of efficient and accurate research. Our experienced consultants strive to not only present you with accurate results, but to ensure that you understand the analytic techniques utilized to obtain those results. We are equipped to meet your research needs to ensure that your project is a success.
Grant Proposals It’s easy to get overwhelmed when dealing with grant proposals. For many researchers, the most daunting aspect of a grant proposal involves developing the sections about research design and planned statistical analyses. We’ve been through it many times before, and we’d be happy to help lighten your load for you and support you throughout the process. Click here for more information on how Elite Research can help you develop a successful grant proposal.
Research Design We understand that the idea of research design can seem intimidating, and that’s why we’re here to help guide you through the process. At Elite Research, our team of researchers is ready and able to work with you on designing both quantitative and qualitative research studies. For more information on how we can assist you with developing accurate sampling plans, survey design or measurements, data collection, and planned statistical analyses, please visit our Research Design page.
Survey Design Surveys are useful in determining how people feel about nearly any topic. If you need to administer customer or employee surveys, or if are you conducting market research or program evaluations, you've come to the right place. The consultants at Elite Research are experienced in a variety of data collection methods, including online, mail, and paper (on-site administrated) surveys to ensure that your survey will yield usable data and accurate research results. Survey Design is just one of the many services offered by Elite Research.
Training and Workshops Why should we keep all the good stuff to ourselves? At Elite Research, we are more than happy to share our knowledge with you so you can expand your abilities in a variety of topics related to research, writing, and statistics. Choose from one of our standard workshop packages, or we can develop customized trainings tailored to meet your particular needs. Feel free to browse through some of our current and upcoming workshops.

Improve your Research Design

We offer several standard training and workshop packages, as well as customized services to meet your needs. Public workshops are held on a monthly basis, with topics such as Getting More out of Excel, Dissertation Essentials: From Proposal to Graduation, and SPSS & Statistics.

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Conduct the Right Analysis

Our consultants provide expert support in empowering researchers in statistical analysis, programming, research design, survey development, web-based surveys, sampling design, e-mailing lists, univariate and multivariate statistical analyses, and more.

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Our teams have a wealth of experience in developing and editing many types of technical documents. Whether you need assistance with manuscript preparation, thesis or dissertation assistance, proposal development, or report writing, we are here to help.

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Let us assist your research in any content area with manuscript preparation, grant proposals, program evaluation, editing and formatting, various types of statistical analyses, and defense preparation. Please contact our academia liaison, Cheryl Taylor, PhD, for more information on how we can help you with your academic research needs.

In the know
Qualitative research is changing; more qualitative studies are being conducted online with an increase in the use of software to aid in the analyses, and there is also a trend to incorporate physiological measurements with qualitative research when appropriate.
There is a continuing push to report effect sizes with all statistical analyses when appropriate.

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Corporate

Market research, logistics, and more...

Projects for industry clients include, but are not limiited to market research, banner table creation, data collection, customer and employee survey design and creation, program evaluation, and business applications. Please contact our corporate liaison, René Paulson, PhD, for more information on how we can help you with your company’s needs.

In the know
Studies have shown that in certain cases, adding an image of an interviewer’s face to an online survey can increase the accuracy of reporting, depending on the type of data the survey is designed to collect.
Market researchers are now focusing on integrating social intelligence into their research in order to discover and address major issues before they hit the groundswell.

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Medical / Health

Community, health, hospitals, and more...

We can help you with survey design; chart reviews; data management; conducting audits of data, analyses, and findings; transcriptions; meta-analytic reviews; advanced statistical methodologies; and beyond. Please contact our medical/health liaison, Wyndy Wiitala, PhD, for more information on how we can help you with your institute’s needs.

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Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing proposed a call for reporting effect sizes in research reports to enhance critical appraisal and evidence-based practice.
Nature Publishing Group (which includes high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, and Nature Reviews Cancer) now requires all submissions to have statistical oversight.

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Nonprofit

Charitable, scientific, faith-based, and more...

From research design, program evaluation, survey design, data collection, statistical analysis, and publication, our consulting team is prepared to address your needs from local to global. Please contact our nonprofit liaison, Jacquelyn Pennings, PhD, for more information on how we can help you with your organization’s needs.

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Blackbaud, Inc. reports the growing trend of the use of technology in nonprofit fundraising, as it is critical to engage donors faster due to current challenges of the economy.
Customer analytics are becoming vital to nonprofits such as the American Red Cross.
Nonprofits may be eligible for government-funded grants with or without 501(c)3 status with the IRS.

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Survey Finds Significant Statistical Insecurity 

By: Abigail Zuger, MD

 

Published in Journal Watch General Medicine August 29, 2007

 

Most physicians have no confidence in their own ability to use medical statistics.

 

The era of evidence-based medicine means that physicians are continuously exposed to statistical concepts, but a survey from Mayo Clinic documents how insecure most of us feel about using them.

 

Of 301 medical students, internal medicine residents, and internal medicine faculty members who completed a questionnaire (for a response rate of 64%), only a small minority agreed they had had adequate training in medical statistics (17%), could tell when the correct statistical methods were used in a study (23%), could conduct their own statistical analyses with confidence (15%), or could design their own research with confidence (28%). Although faculty were more likely to report confidence than trainees, even they were seldom confident using statistics independently, and even among respondents with extensive self-reported research experience, only 55% were confident conducting their own statistical analyses. Almost 80% of respondents felt a biostatistician should be centrally involved in most research.

 

Comment: This study's results certainly ring true: It seems only the rare physician is truly fluent in statistics and in the language of medical research. Further, while researchers may collaborate with biostatisticians on their projects, clinicians struggling to explain new studies to patients are on their own and often make big mistakes. The authors suggest that evidence-based medicine become the vehicle for more-effective training in biostatistics for all.

 

 

Citation

 

West CP and Ficalora RD. Clinician attitudes toward biostatistics. Mayo Clin Proc 2007 Aug; 82:939-43. [Medline® abstract]

 

Copyright © 2007. Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.

 

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Texas Woman's University
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University of North Texas
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Texas Christian University
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Texas Woman's University

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