Across
- 3. appraisal of the strength and weakness of a study
- 4. reflect the ratio of two probabilities
- 5. the process of transforming data into symbols-usually numbers
- 9. most secure means of protecting confidentiality
- 11. the degree to which an instrument is measuring the construct it purports to measure
- 12. states that there are no relationships between variables
- 14. trials studies designed to assess clinical interventions
- 16. the arithmetic average of all scores
- 17. used in observations to recording the occurrence or frequency of designated behaviors, events, or characteristics
Down
- 1. achieved through accurate measuring tools, controls over confounding variables, and powerful statistical methods
- 2. an influence that produces a distortion or error
- 6. integrating qualitative research findings on a topic
- 7. a characteristic or quality that takes on different values
- 8. a basic principle that is believed to be true without proof
- 10. doing something to study participants
- 13. a statement of predicted relationships between two or more variables
- 15. the process of selecting cases to represent an entire population, to permit inferences about the population