Across
- 2. the "normal" values on the measure for a specified population; offer a good comparison
- 6. the process of identifying and holding in abeyance preconceived beliefs and opinions about the phenomenon under study
- 7. involves threats of penalty from failing to participate in a study or excessive rewards from agreeing to participate
- 9. an abstract entity that brings meaning and identity to a current experience and its variant manifestations
- 10. a type of sampling in qualitative research that involved selecting cases that meet a predetermined criterion of importance
- 12. a method of estimating either the likelihood of committing a Type II error or sample size requirements
- 13. the most basic population unit about which information is collected
- 18. designed to assess the effectiveness of clinical interventions; can unfold into a series of phases
- 19. "filling in" missing data with values believed to be good estimates of what the values would have been had they not been missing
- 20. have been used as a source of data in historical research
- 21. the exactness of the relationships revealed after controlling confounding variables
Down
- 1. systematic inquiry that uses disciplined methods to answer questions or solve problems
- 3. a group in which there is limited variability
- 4. specific accomplishments researchers hope to achieve by conducting the study
- 5. a common method of displaying frequency information graphically
- 8. involves integrating qualitative research findings on a topic; more about amplifying and interpreting information
- 11. involves doing something to a study participants in quantitative research
- 14. a symbol that expands a search term to include all forms of a root word
- 15. an index of relative risk for each predictor
- 16. the degree to which an instrument measures what it purports to measure
- 17. the extent to which qualitative findings can be transferred to other settings