Polit and Beck 3 and 4
Across
- 1. a term referring to the building blocks of theories
- 3. a variable that explains why the relationship exits between independent and dependent variable
- 6. query researchers want to answer
- 9. predicts the existence of relationship but not their direction
- 11. a hypothesis that predicts the direction of relationship
- 12. strength of relationship between dependent and independent variable
- 13. includes a statement of predicted population parameters
- 14. presumed cause of the dependent variable
- 15. refers to a variable the research intends to explain
- 16. a statement that summarizes overall study goal
- 17. these are the people who participate in a study
- 19. expresses absence of relationship
Down
- 1. variable with distinct category that do not represent a quantity
- 2. variable with finite number of values between two points
- 4. this is the information collected during a study
- 5. a variable with an infinite range of values eg weight
- 7. group with limited variability
- 8. groups with varied attributes
- 10. a hypothesis term that is opposite of a simple hypothesis
- 16. a statement that articulate nature, content and significance
- 18. a type of hypothesis that explains prediction relationship one independent variable and one dependent