Research and Statistical Support (RSS)

The RSS group provides support for survey research for many departments on campus.  However, before getting started it is strongly recommended you have a basic understanding of test development, reliability, validity and other concepts regarding test theory, sources for which we will be happy to provide.

One good place to learn more about survey research methods is by spending some time reading through the Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods section of the American Statistical Association (all proceedings are available as Adobe.pdf): https://www.amstat.org/sections/SRMS/Proceedings/

It is also important to note that all UNT community members have access to the Qualtrics software through the my.unt.edu portal. For more information on Qualtrics, please see their website.

Benchmarks Articles

• Introduction to Web Based Surveys With Zope

• A Video Introduction to Creating Web Surveys  - assumes you have been assigned a Zope account

• Publishing HTML Documents on the Zope server web2survey.unt.edu

• New Developments with Web Based Surveys

• Editing HTML Documents with the Kupu Editor

• Creating Web Based Documents that Give Access to the R Statistical Environment

R and Survey Analysis

• Introduction to R

• Introduction to survey analysis in R

• R/S-Plus Class Webpage

• R Web Interfaces

• Homepage for R Package "survey" - Thomas Lumley

• CRAN - download site for package "survey" - Thomas Lumley

• CRAN - Experimental revision of package "survey"

• PEAS - Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys

• Listing of survey packages and feature listing and comparisons

• Help pages (rss.acs.unt.edu) for R package "survey"

• Help pages for R package "surveyNG" - connection to databases

Contact Information

Address any questions about this page to Jonathan.Starkweather@unt.edu