Software and other tools
Following items have been developed within the NCRM research programme:
EPPI-Reviewer by MRS
EPPI-Reviewer is a web application that enables researchers to manage the entire lifecyle of a review in a single location. Users are able to upload studies for screening, complete keywording and data extractions and analyse the results over the internet. EPPI-Reviewer can be accessed through the MRS website.
MLwiN by LEMMA
MLwiN software package enables researchers to create a visual interface for multilevel modelling. These graphical interfaces allow the user easily to set up, fit and manipulate models. There are windows for data manipulation, plotting, viewing the progress of iterations etc. Predictions from fitted models can be specified directly using standard statistical notation with direct links to various kinds of derived graphs, which are automatically updated as model parameters change. More information and to download the software package please go to the LEMMA / Centre for Multilevel Modelling website.
R package ecoreg by BIAS
R is a language and environment for statistical computing, the most popular platform for new statistical algorithm development (see www.r-project.org). ecoreg fits a range of models for this form of ecological and individual data, using maximum likelihood estimation. Models with random area-level intercepts are supported, with likelihoods calculated using Gauss-Hermite integration. For more information please go to the BIAS website.
R package SAE by BIAS
R is a language and environment for statistical computing, the most popular platform for new statistical algorithm development (see www.r-project.org). This package is for Small Area Estimation using EBLUP estimators. For more information please go to the BIAS website.
Toolkits from Realities
Participant Produced Video: Giving participants camcorders as a social research methods by Stewart Muir
Participatory Mapping: An innovative sociological method by Nick Emmel
Informed Consent in Visual Research by Katherine Davies
Door Knocking as a Method of Recruiting a Sample by Katherine Davies
After the Ethical Approval Form: Ethical considerations of working in research team by Hazel Burke
Putting on an exhibition to disseminate your research by Hazel Burke
Using Music Elicitation to Research People's Relationship with Music by Nicola Allett
Transcribing your own data by Hazel Burke, Lisa Jenkins and Victoria Higham
Using email interviews by Lucy Gibson