Preface

Dear researchers, beloved students, and everyone interested in academia,

MerQur was developed with the aim of providing a simple, integrated, and accessible solution to the fundamental problems frequently encountered in academic research. Over the years, in my own work and in the research processes of our graduate students, I have repeatedly encountered the same questions:

“Which analysis should I use?”
“How should I interpret this result?”
“How do I turn the analysis output into an academic report?”

These needs were exactly the starting point of MerQur.

The platform has been developed over many years to enable researchers to carry out analysis, visualization, and reporting processes within a single system. Especially for interdisciplinary researchers and those needing native-language resources, the goal was to make the process from data loading to result reporting as clear, fast, and comprehensive as possible.

Today MerQur offers parametric, non-parametric, categorical, regression, survival, spatial analysis, and machine learning methods needed across many fields — medicine, education, sport sciences, agriculture, landscape architecture, architecture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering — all under a single interface.

This platform consists of three main sections:

• Features tab introduces MerQur’s analysis modules and workflow structure.
• Disciplines tab contains discipline-specific analysis examples aligned with the Higher Education Council (YÖK) associate professorship core fields.
• Basic Statistics tab provides guide content that explains statistical concepts in plain language.

MerQur was developed to contribute to the academic community. For this reason, academic use will always remain free of charge.

I sincerely hope that MerQur contributes to your research and facilitates your academic production processes.

I dedicate MerQur to the two principal components I have lost — my beloved mother and father,
Nevin & Tuncer ÖRÜCÜ