Hi

Long time since ive been on here, nice to see its still very active :-)

Right, this may be a touchy subject for some, but hear me out!
I am in the final few months of a PhD, with some minor experiments to finish off and i have been offered a full time job to start in March. I have an outline thesis completed, but it is no where near finished and still needs alot of work. I am going to have to accept the job as i have a young daughter and bills that need paying.

Has anyone ever used one of these thesis writing/editing services and what was the result? I know they are expensive but i really dont know how i am going to manage a full time job and a PhD thesis, (i am also dyslexic so things usualy take longer than they should)

What do you guys rekon? any recomendations of any thesis editing services?

Thanks for the reply, That's really interesting,
and nice to know.  I think i may stick with my original analysis and resubmit
with better explanations of why my data is suited to non-parametric stats. Do
you know, off hand,  of any recent papers that have used non-parametric data in
biological sciences? If you could let me know that would be great!  Thanks
Jay.

Hi

Just looking for a bit ofadvice, I recently sat my viva for transfer from Mphil to PhD, prior to theviva both my supervisors said i had enough data and a strong document, almostworthy of PhD as it stood.

I am working with insects andmeasuring there response to chemical cues originating from food products (theinsects are assumed to be visual predators and no chemo response has previouslybeen documented in the species) However there response is not normallydistributed, so i have used non parametric statistics to compare response timesto the chemical compared to control data (without the chemical) in a Y tubetype test.

I was told in the viva (bytwo bio-chemists) that i could not use non normal data and to either transformit to make it normal and then apply "real" stats to the results orrepeat the last two years worth of experiments so i could use a form ofPrinciple component analysis.

I have used various tests andthe data is still not normal, what is the predudice against non parametricstatistics? I understand in other sciences parametric data is very important,but in animals who have individual traits and behaviours i cant see how it ispossible!



I am obviously reluctant to repeat everything and theseconcerns were not raised in the last viva (Msc to Mphil)

Has anyone else had similar issues with non normal data?

Be grateful of any advice, should i just repeat it all , orre submit and have a strong argument as to my reasons behind using non parametricdata.

Many thanks

Jay