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Overview
This page highlights online books exploring these areas of research methods:
The basics
Organizing a research project
Quantitative & qualitative methods
Demystifying statistics
Sampling best practices
Surveys, interviews & focus groups
Getting Organized
Designing and managing your research project: Core skills for social and health research
How to do your research project: A guide for students in medicine and the health sciences
Statistics
Applied statistics for the social and health sciences
Biostatistics decoded
Encyclopedia of measurement and statistics
The Basics
Quantitative Research
Health science research: A handbook of quantitative methods
Qualitative Research
Designing qualitative research
Ethics in qualitative research
Sampling
Surveys
Conducting online surveys
Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research
Designing surveys: A guide to decisions and procedures
Encyclopedia of survey research methods
Interviews
Interpreting interviews
Focus Groups
Doing focus groups
Focus groups as qualitative research
Focus group practice
Focus groups: Theory and practice