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Students planning a research project must read the existing literature in the area. After all, you don’t want to reinvent the wheel! Once you have an idea about the general area you are interested in, you should read what has been found already. No doubt, as you read the research, you will think of potentially interesting variables, populations, or methods that have not been investigated. The existing research is a great source of ideas for research topics. Understanding empirical research articles can be challenging if you are not already familiar with the topic, but the next chapter (Chapter 2) will provide help. There we will give you an overview of the parts of a research article and describe, at a conceptual level, the most common statistical analyses you will likely read about.