Analyses per research goal
This is the landing page for topics related to analyses for different types of goals that may be the focus of your ILD study.
Your study may focus on different research goals. Although many statistical models can serve each of these goals, they often require specific additional analyses tailored to the focus.
Below we have specified multiple articles where you can read more about different types of goals.
Think more about types of goals
Description
Describing patterns in your data without aiming to generalize to a population.
Prediction
Trying to predict a future observation or characteristic with observations from the present and past.
- [Forecasting]
- [Early-warning signals]
Causation
Explaining the mechanisms behind a process.
- [Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)]
- [Dynamic structural equation models]
- [Marginal structural models]
- [G-methods]
Analyses that are population-focused, process-focused, or both
Your goal may be to make inferences about the population, a process, or both