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By Avishek Majumder & Priya Chetty on November 16, 2018 No Comments

Applied statistics in the pharmaceutical industry is traced to Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments in 1962. According to the amendment, firms must prove the safety of the drug and also present substantial evidence of its efficiency (Burger et al, 2012).

 
By Soumya Srivastava on October 29, 2018 No Comments

A systematic literature review attempts ‘to identify, appraise and summarise all the empirical evidence. Evidence must meet pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer a given research question. A systematic review of literature helps to develop the study that allows identification, quality, limitations and potential.

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By Avishek Majumder & Priya Chetty on July 20, 2018 No Comments

Quantitative analysis of textual data has been long used in the field of social sciences research. This includes data collected from open ended surveys and interview questions. Analysis of text-based data helps in assessment of trends in social sciences.

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By Avishek Majumder on April 10, 2018 No Comments

Challenges of bibliometrics arise at every checkpoint of bibliometrics. Thus, the last section of the bibliometric analysis comprises of challenges with respect to mapping and scattering analysis. Moreover, the challenges also comprise of interpretation from data analyses of mapping and scattering.

 
By Avishek Majumder & Priya Chetty on April 3, 2018 No Comments

Focus Group Discussion (FGD) is a research method in the social sciences, with a particular emphasis and application in the developmental program evaluation sphere (Doody, Slevin, & Taggart, 2013).

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By Avishek Majumder on February 26, 2018 No Comments

Bibliometric studies are not a recent trend of studies. Bibliometrics are in simple terms metrics of bibliography where the studies are focused on understanding the trend of researches on a particular field of study or diverse field of studies (Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, De Rijcke, & Rafols, 2015). Bibliometrics are statistical analyses of written publications, books, journals or thesis articles and are frequently used in the field of library and information science, including scientometrics (Arsenova, 2013; Leydesdorff, 2015).

 
By Priya Chetty on February 16, 2018 32 Comments

Auto regressive Distributed Lag Models (ARDL) model plays a vital role when comes a need to analyze a  economic scenario. In an economy, change in any economic variables may bring change in another economic variables beyond the time.

 
By Avishek Majumder & Priya Chetty on February 6, 2018 No Comments

Challenges of bibliometrics arise at every step of the study, selection of the specific software and type of analyses done. Thus, this article presented both the challenges and the solutions occurring in data analysis of bibliometrics.