This article is the eighth in a series exploring the importance of research design, statistical analysis, and epidemiology in nutrition and dietetics research. It is the second article in that series focused on multivariate statistical analytical techniques. This review examines the statistical...

This research brief describes instructional practices that support English language learners and presents findings on how those practices are applied in Los Angeles Universal preschool center-based classrooms and family child care programs.

Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this working paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. The analysis uses variations in rainfall experienced in utero or early childhood to measure ability. It finds that rainfall...

Population trends in vegetable consumption patterns were assessed among U.S. children from FITS 2008.

This report provides a snapshot of subcontractors' plans for achieving targeted outcomes and activities that support development of infrastructure to implement with fidelity, scale up, and sustain evidence-based home visiting programs during year three of the initiative.

This issue brief compares the 2011 and 2010 data collection cycles for the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), an annual multimode establishment survey of more than 17,000 substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States, to determine whether a new data...

This brief assesses the availability, completeness, and quality of the inpatient and prescription-drug encounter data in the MAX system in order to judge the data's usability.

Describes the national sample design for the fifth and sixth rounds of the surveys.