Some hints for starting a research

1.     Read the article and outline the main points

2.     Point out the suspicious points of the article and the points that can be developed/improved

3.     Check whether there is a similar study improving the article or not

·        If there is a good method which can be used, then update

·        Other articles will be used for literature review

·        If the article was improved already, then find another one

4.     Draw a diagram (by hand) how the study was carried out

5.     Collect the data similar to the study

6.     Use the data and the diagram to replicate the study

7.     Check whether the result is consistent

8.     List the new ideas and draw new diagram

9.     Build the new model with new ideas

! At immediate level, writing a new code is much easier than modifying the code written by someone else. Of course at advanced level, you can do whatever you want.

! Do not use user-defined function if that is not a function you created because it will easily confuse you. Once you write a code yourself, you can extract a part of the code and make a function.