jmf-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript — longitudinal and life-course designs, dyadic and family-level analysis, family-demographic methods, experiments, and qualitative/multi-method designs. JMF judges each tradition on its own terms and is alert to selection. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmf-research-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Research Design (jmf-research-design) JMF accepts quantitative, qualitative, and multi-method work but is demanding about each. The design must connect the framework (`jmf-theory-and-conceptual-framework`) to evidence while respecting the **unit of analysis** (individual, dyad, family, household, cohort) and the **non-independence** of people who share a relationship. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that fits your work. ## When to trigger - Specifying the design, sample, measures, and identification strategy - A reviewer questioned **selection**, causal claims, generalizability, or the handling of dyads - Designing a longitudinal, dyadic, family-level, or comparative study - Preparing a pre-analysis plan or planning a replication ## Quantitative — longitudinal / family demography - **Life-course / panel**: growth curves, cross-lagged panel, fixed effects within persons or couples, change-score models; be explicit about timing, sequencing, and time-varying covariates. - **Event history / survival**: discrete- or continuous-time hazards for marriage, cohabitation, divorce, fertility; competing risks where multiple exits are possible. - **Family demography**: rates, life
- When to trigger
- Quantitative — longitudinal / family demography
- Quantitative — dyadic & family-level
- Experiments (lab / survey / field)
- Qualitative / multi-method
- The selection-and-interdependence test (JMF-specific)
- Design-defensibility table JMF referees apply
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the design fix
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jmf-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript — longitudinal and life-course designs, dyadic and family-level analysis, family-demographic methods, experiments, and qualitative/multi-method designs. JMF judges each tradition on its own terms and is alert to selection. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmf-research-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.