Portuguese term (edited): Estudio Piloto

Statistics Belgium. Working Paper n° 10. Final report. PILOT STUDY ON STATISTICS
ON WASTE. IN AGRICULTURE, FISHING AND. FORESTRY. B. Kestemont, K. Reynders, ...
http://www.statbel.fgov.be/pub/d0/p009n010.pdf







The term pilot study is used in two different ways in social science research. It can refer to so-called feasibility studies which are "small scale version[s], or trial run[s], done in preparation for the major study" (Polit et al., 2001: 467). However, a pilot study can also be the pre-testing or 'trying out' of a particular research instrument (Baker 1994: 182-3). One of the advantages of conducting a pilot study is that it might give advance warning about where the main research project could fail, where research protocols may not be followed, or whether proposed methods or instruments are inappropriate or too complicated. In the words of De Vaus (1993: 54) "Do not take the risk. Pilot test first." These are important reasons for undertaking a pilot study, but there are additional reasons, for example convincing funding bodies that your research proposal for the main study is worth funding. Thus pilot studies are conducted for a range of different reasons (see Table 1).

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The clickworkers pilot study produced some very impressive results in 2001.
Beginning in late 2005 or so, and in the years ahead, we will be working with ...
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/


A pilot study is a focused test to prove the utility of GIS within a local ...
Even though this is only a pilot study, it also serves as a test of likely ...
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/nysaservices/ns_mgr_active_g...


In January of 2002, a pilot study of writing competency was conducted in preparation
for a state-mandated assessment of writing competency scheduled for May ...
http://www.longwood.edu/assessment/writing_competency_pilot....

COMM 2513 is the only algebra based statistics course used. in the pilot study.
Additionally, testing conditions in this. class were not optimal. ...
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2003/papers/1049.pdf
Statistics for pilot study – · Test for normality of distribution of RC and CA
tests for the group as a whole: Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests are non-significant ...
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To test the feasibility of such a survey, CDC's National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) recently conducted a pilot study in two sites through a ...
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001871.htm
America's Charter Schools: Results From the NAEP 2003 Pilot Study. By: US Department
of Education, National Center for Education Statistics ...
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_6/6_4/4_1.asp


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