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Finding Scholarly Articles that Contain Statistical Research

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Statistics is used in every other academic discipline in addition to Mathematics.  Finding journal articles that contain statistical analyses is not a difficult task, as long as you know where and how to look...


WHERE:

There are several databases that are good places to look for journal articles that contain statistically-analyzed data.  The following are some databases that we recommend, but by no means are they the only databases that are out there!

Note:  these links will ONLY work if you are trying to access them from on-campus!  For off-campus access use the link at the bottom of the list.


HOW:

Searching by keyword is the absolute best way to find journal articles containing statistical analyses. 

For example:  I want to find a journal article that deals with education and t-tests.

Where:  Search the ERIC database, because ERIC covers educational topics.

How:  Search using the keywords "education and t-test" because those are the two ideas I want to find in one journal article.

From the list of articles that comes up, choose an article that seems interesting and relevant and click on the title.  Scan the abstract and contents and you will find that the authors of this article dealing with education analyzed their data using a t-test.  If you don't like this article or can't find as many results as you'd like, change your keywords - choose another test to search or choose another topic to search - i.e. search for z-test instead of t-test or search psychology instead of education...

If you have any problems finding a journal article that covers what you are interested in, ask any reference librarian in the library, or contact your math librarian directly for some help.

Last updated 12/3/04.
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