Crossword Puzzle, Chapters 1-5, 7-14, & 16

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Across
  1. 2. provides a numeric score to place respondents on a continuum with respect to an attribute
  2. 5. a type of research that examines the quality and effectiveness of health care and nursing services
  3. 6. value that occurs the most frequently
  4. 7. a type of study published in professional journals and not pre-appraised for quality or use in practice
  5. 8. most secure means of protecting confidentiality, occurs when researcher can't link participants to their data
  6. 10. type of data in numeric form
  7. 11. a type of sampling that entails using the most conveniently available people as participants
  8. 12. are operators used to expand or delimit a search
Down
  1. 1. or pseudo-intervention presumed to have no therapeutic value
  2. 3. a method that refers to a set of orderly, disciplined procedures used to acquire information
  3. 4. a type of hypothesis that specifies not only the existence but also the expected direction of the relationship between variables
  4. 6. otherwise known as pair matching involves using information about people's characteristics to create comparable groups
  5. 9. a type of validity that refers to whether the instrument looks like it is measuring the target construct
  6. 12. is an influence that produces a distortion or error