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9 free tools for your research (and teaching)

  • 1.  9 free tools for your research (and teaching)

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    Dear AOM Friends,

    By popular request, I am making available the following free tools THAT YOU CAN USE RIGHT NOW to help address common research challenges (@Research methods instructors: These are also excellent teaching tools!):

    ✅Improve measurement:

    1. Careless respondents often escape detection. Laz.R uses first-order Markov chains plus six additional indices to flag patterned responding: https://hermanaguinis.com/LazR.html

    2. Coarse (few-point) Likert scales underestimate effect sizes. This tool corrects correlations for scale coarseness: https://hermanaguinis.com/coarse.html

    ✅Improve tests of moderating/interaction effects:

    3. Moderated regression fails when error variances are unequal. ALTMMR detects heterogeneity and computes corrected statistics: https://www.hermanaguinis.com/methodological-tools.html

    4. Moderated regression has low, unstable power. MMRPOWER estimates accurate power under realistic conditions: https://hermanaguinis.com/mmrpower.html

    5. Effect sizes for categorical moderators are often miscalculated. This tool computes the correct modified f-squared effect size: https://hermanaguinis.com/fsquared.html

    ✅Improve ANCOVA:

    6. Measurement error in covariates biases ANCOVA results. This program applies EIV models to remove bias: https://www.hermanaguinis.com/eiv.html

    ✅Improve multi-level modeling:

    7. Power for cross-level interactions is hard to estimate. This tool computes accurate a priori power for multilevel designs: https://hermanaguinis.com/crosslevel.html

    ✅Improve meta-regression:

    8. Meta-regression is often inconsistent or incorrect. This tool implements transparent, best-practice procedures: https://hermanaguinis.com/JOMmetaregression.html

    ✅Improve research transparency:

    9. Transparency reviews are time-consuming. RTI generates a transparency index and developmental feedback: https://hermanaguinis.com/RTI.html

    For those of you celebrating, Happy Thanksgiving!

    All the best,

    --Herman.



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    Herman Aguinis, Ph.D.
    Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar & Professor of Management
    The George Washington University School of Business
    Washington, DC
    https://hermanaguinis.com/
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