Research Design Tools: Study Design

Study Design – designing experiments (guidance, software)

Penn

• Mixed Methods Research Lab (MMRL) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health fosters the use of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies with a focus on integrating key stakeholder perspectives and goals into research designs (Perelman School of Medicine) https://www.med.upenn.edu/fmch/mixed-methods-research-lab

External

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  Article about the Study/Experimental/Research Design: Much More Than Statistics (NIH) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808761/

• Rigorous Science: a How-To Guide (Article in American Society for Microbiology (ASM) open access journal) https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01902-16.full
• Experimental Design Learning Module (Indiana University: School of Medicine) https://iu.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx?EID=36408&P=3000&CaseID=764#
• Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is a web application which helps researchers improve the design of animal experiments https://eda.nc3rs.org.uk/
• PDF of Guidelines on the Organization of Samples in a Laboratory (Columbia University) https://research.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/RCT%20content/ReaDI%20Program/Guidelines_Sample_Storage_Tutorial_V7.compressed.pdf