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CAHS Library: Tools

Quantitative Data Analysis

Alternatives to: SPSS 

  • JASP is an open-source project supported by the University of Amsterdam.
  • Jamovi is a new “3rd generation” statistical spreadsheet, designed from the ground up to be easy to use
  • R (The R Project for Statistical Computing) can run a huge range of statistical tests.
    • works on command line instructions, rather than a user interface. You need to become comfortable in creating command line instructions.
    • guide available here
    • Rstudio - a supporting program that provides an interface with R
  • Confidence interval calculator
    • a spreadsheet to calculate confidence intervals for a mean, the difference between two means, a proportion or odds, comparisons of two proportions (the absolute risk reduction, number needed to treat, relative risk, relative risk reduction and odds ratio), sensitivity, specificity and two-level likelihood ratios

 

Qualitative Data Analysis

 Alternatives to: NVivo

  • Taguette  is an open source tool to manage, organize, and analyze qualitative data
  • CATMA (Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis) is a free online QDA tool from a German academic collaboration.
  • RQDA is an open source program built on the R stats package. While popular it appears to have not been maintained since 2020, so future performance and availability is unclear.
  • QDA Miner Lite is a free cut down version of the paid program QDA Miner. Full functionality available from paid product.

Data Visualisation

  • Tableau is a free online platform for creating and sharing data visualisations

Reference Management

Alternatives to: Endnote

Library provides support with Endnote only.

AI Tools

AI can read and write, can't think.  They are "language" models, not "Knowledge" models, and are essentially systems that convert words(input) to numbers (processing) and back into words (answer or output).  AI propagates errors.
Important considerations for AI - inclusion of acknowledgement/authenticity statements (how AI was used in the output); privacy, security, ethical considerations. It is not at a systems level of evidence.  It is not a medical device point of care tool.

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