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In any essay or academic paper with a quantitative component, you’ll have to describe your variables at some point. There are four types of variables, each of which we’ve explained below:

Here’s a useful tip: You can build your own attempts to cope with the difficult aspects of an academic paper, or your own struggle to understand material, into the paper itself, improving your work in the process. Imagine that...

We’ve all heard about the concept of data being skewed, but what does this concept really mean? In statistical reporting of the kind in which you have to engage in academic papers, theses, or research essays, skewness is a...

Very few people are familiar with the concept of kurtosis, but, in quantitatively oriented academic papers, theses, or research essays, kurtosis is a property that you have to understand, generate...

Earlier, we showed you what correlation looks like on scatter plots and described how the Pearson correlation coefficient, r, can vary from -1 to 1. In this post, we’ll provide some details on...

The gig economy sucks for a simple reason: Owners are greedy. In the custom writing business, the typical model is for the company to retain 70% or more of the revenue, often paying writers as little as...

Pearson correlation, which generates an r value or correlation coefficient, is one of the most common statistical procedures. Many academic papers that contain...

One of the most common mistakes in academic writing is to confuse affect and effect. In this blog post, we'll show you how to use these two words properly.

Many academic papers, theses, or research projects that contain quantitative findings can be enriched by the use of 95% confidence interval (CI) plots, which can be generated by statistical programs such as...

A sadly typical student model for writing academic papers is waiting until the last minute, then pulling an all-nighter to get it done. In addition to the needless personal stress such an...

We’ve all procrastinated over the act of writing. Of course, when it comes to academic papers, the risk of procrastination is that you’ll miss a due date. And yet, even as you feel the time slipping by, you...

One of the most basic questions that comes up in quantitative research projects is whether the mean of one variable is different from the mean of another variable. Are men taller than women? Do people with degrees earn more...

If our assumption of equal variances is violated, we need to run an independent samples t-test based on an assumption of unequal variances. Here's how.

Many students struggle with the question of how to begin an academic paper. Often, professors are quite helpful in offering you a prompt and directions that you can transform into...

In the context of an academic paper based on quantitative methods, a hypothesis is a statement for which you are collecting evidence. The best way to understand hypotheses is...

Let’s say you know how to test hypotheses and interpret p values. Where do you go from there? Oftentimes, in order to improve the quality of an academic paper or thesis, you...

APA format is one of the most common formats for writing papers. Many of your college papers will require the proper use of APA format. You can actually purchase a book on APA authored...