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    Research Engineer makes applied research and statistics easier

    Research Engineer is designed to get you to the correct research question, research design, sample size, database, and statistical test

    Based on your decisions to the questions presented, you will get to right place

    A few words on what I'm doing on here. I am a biostatistician, methodologist, psychometrician, and counselor. Everyday, the incredibly intelligent people I work with including physicians, residents, fellows, staff, and faculty feel anxiety when it comes to statistics and research. Research has shown that statistics can induce cognitive dissonance in an individual due to limited experiences and competencies. The collective unconscious has sequestered statistics and research into a dark corner and that's scary.

    Research and statistics are the methods by which we, as scientists, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate our research findings in a manner that can be generalized to the appropriate audience. If our methods for communicating research findings causes cognitive dissonance, just because it relates to research and statistics, then how can one ever really be able to generalize the clinical literature and integrate it into clinical practice?

    After seven years of being the one to induce cognitive dissonance in others related to research and statistics, I decided to make a useful tool for students and researchers that could alleviate some of the feelings of anxiety associated with research and statistics. I built Research Engineer.

    Research Engineer is designed to get you to the correct research question, research design, sample size, database, statistical test, evidence-based medicine intervention, diagnostic calculation, epidemiological calculation, variables, surveys, psychometrics, and educational framework to answer your current question (and future questions). 

    I am trying to bring research and statistics out of the collective unconscious and into the conscious mind where it can be effectively communicated among researchers, scientists, and students by creating this decision engine. It is easy to get to the correct research or statistical component, just answer the questions that I present you in the webpages and click on the buttons with your answer in them. Also, the step-by-step methods for conducting and interpreting each statistical test in SPSS are presented on their respective webpages. 

    You can also contact me via phone, social media, and email at any time in you have questions. If you need some help conducting statistics for a research project, I have eight years of experience across thousands of individual projects and I would love to help you on your study.  We can negotiate prices if you are an undergraduate or graduate researcher. 

    In conclusion, Research Engineer makes choosing research methods and statistical tests MUCH EASIER. Just answer the questions embedded in the various decision engines and get to the correct method or test, EVERY TIME.

    Thanks for your continued support, dear friends and colleagues. And many thanks and salutations to the individuals that use Research Engineer. I am honored and humbled to have this great opportunity to create a very useful and unique website. You all are the ones that make it shine!

    ​Sincerely,

    R. Eric Heidel, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
    ​Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Department of Surgery
    Office of Medical Education, Research, and Development
    University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
    Owner and Operator, Scale, LLC
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    New published research from Eric Heidel 

    Published research in pharmacy and statistics

    Two recent publications from R. Eric Heidel, Ph.D.

    By day, I am an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. My primary work task is to consult on resident, fellow, physician, faculty, and staff research projects and conduct statistical analyses. I also publish my own original research.

    By night, I am Owner and Operator of Scalë, LLC and Research Engineer. Here are some recent publications that can further reinforce that I run a credible website with valid and relevant content. And as always, thank you for using Research Engineer!

    Best,

    ​R. Eric Heidel, Ph.D.
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    Research and statistics in the collective unconscious

    Research Engineer will always be free

    Fighting the good fight for statistics and research

    It behooves me to make Research Engineer free to the world.  Statistics and research often cause a "knee-jerk" reaction of anxiety and cognitive dissonance.  I am reminded of this on a daily basis, because I live it on a daily basis.  

    It seems to me that statistics and research, in the most basic applied sense, have acquired a negative connotation within the collective unconscious.  That is scary because researchers communicate the findings of their research using statistics! Other researchers and clinicians are supposed to be able to interpret and generalize the research methods and statistical findings of the studies, denoting possession of the necessary competencies and experience to do so.  

    Research Engineer will always be free, because research and statistics belong to everyone.  Names like Aristotle, al-Haytham, Bacon, Descartes, Bayes, Gauss, Pearson, Fisher, Spearman, Bonferroni, Tukey, Cox, and Cronbach have come before me and have invented the empirical and statistical methods presented in this website.  All I did was take their methods and build THE FIRST decision engine designed to avert the aforementioned anxiety and cognitive dissonance. The brilliant men and women that came before me deserve to be recognized and their methods, which we use in everyday life to make important decisions, should be held in a higher esteem within the collective unconscious.

    I tell my clients that when they feel cognitive dissonance associated with research or statistics, I will be standing there in their unconscious mind, ready to help.  It always gets a reaction, but they always come back and they always receive my best efforts.

    Now, when anyone around the world feels that "knee-jerk" reaction to research and statistics and they want to retreat into their unconscious minds, Research Engineer will be waiting, always free and always able to help.  

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