Introduction to Research: Collection, Design, and Implementation of Experiment

Running head: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
Introduction to Research
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Table of Contents
1. Collection of data.........................................................................................................................2
1.1Data source.............................................................................................................................2
1.2 Data collection.......................................................................................................................2
1.3 Data storage...........................................................................................................................4
2. Design and implementation.........................................................................................................5
2.1 Pre – Processing of data.........................................................................................................5
2.2 Feature selection or dimension reduction..............................................................................6
2.3 Experiment Design................................................................................................................7
2.4 Implementation of designed experiment method................................................................10
3. Analysis of Result......................................................................................................................17
3.1 Estimation of obtained results.............................................................................................17
3.2 Summary of the obtained results.........................................................................................18
4. Brief Outline of Experiment and Result Analysis.....................................................................19
5. Reference list.............................................................................................................................20

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1. Collection of data
Proper design of method of experiment and result analysis from the experiment should
be done before performing experiment and obtaining result. The first task in conducting
experiment process is to collect data that would be used in the experiment. There are different
sources for gathering data (Tang and Zhang 2013). The detailed information regarding selected
data source is given in section 1.1. The most appropriate data source is then selected and is used
for analysis. All the data are then put into the table to prepare a record (Deutsch et al. 2013). The
data file is created in the subsection 1.1.3. The collected data are stored in the created file. The
data file is saved is to be saved in the computer.
1.1 Data source
Before starting the experiment process, research needs to be conducted regarding research
problem, design of the experiment and selection in data sources (Montgomery 2017). The
particular study targets common people of different age. Data collected from public and private
hospital.
 Public hospital
 Private hospital
1.2 Data collection
The following table is prepared to collect data and prepare record for the experiment. The
details regarding data source, name of the organization and data description, type of data, format
for collected data, fees and appropriateness of the data is given in the table (Creswell and
Creswell 2017).

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Table 1: Collection of data
Data Source
Name
Source
Organization
(Public =
hospitals)
Data
Description
Data file
format
Charge fee Target data
source
Data 1 Public How many
patients are
admitted on
an average in
a week?
CSV Free Yes
Data 2 Public What type of
diseases the
patients are
suffering
from?
CSV Free Yes
Data 3 Public Which
diseases has
the highest
frequency?
CSV Free Yes
Data 4 Public How many
patients had
medical
CSV Free Yes

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insurance
Data 5 Public Which
department
had the
highest
frequency of
insured
patients?
CSV Free Yes
1.3 Data storage
The creation and completion of the data table is followed by gathering the data and put
those data on a separate table (Pedhazur and Schmelkin 2013). The second data table has raw
data that is the data directly collected from the data source. The data is stored for safety purpose
so that data might not lose (Kratochwill et al. 2013).
Table 2: Storage of data
Data Source
name
Date of
collection
Saved file
location
Saved file
name
Saved file
format
No of
records
Survey from
private
hospitals
18/10/2018 // raw data/ Survey.csv CSV 70
Survey from 20/10/ 2018 // raw data/ Survey.csv CSV 80

Read Data
Filter data
Resampling data
Generate
required data set
Specialized
data
Raw
data
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public
hospitals
2. Design and implementation
After collecting the data, the next step is to design and implement the method of
experiment (Johnson et al. 2013). The subsection 2.1 contains method of pre-processing the data.
In the subsection 2.2, method of reducing dimension or featured selection is given. The
subsection 2.3 and 2.4 contain phase of design and implementation procedure.
2.1 Pre – Processing of data
Figure 1: Pre-processing of data