Across
- 3. Methods research in the health sciences that has be called “a quiet revolution”.
- 6. Hypothesis inferred from observations
- 8. Measurement which involves assigning numbers to classify characteristics into categories.
- 13. Primary research tradition in anthropology.
- 14. Set of questions often called _____
- 15. The process of selecting cases to represent an entire population.
- 17. ___ical Literature On-____
- 18. cleaning that involves two types of checks.
- 20. Practice guidelines represent an effort to distill a large body of evidence into a manageable form.
- 21. Data collection which is the collection of data without participants’ knowledge and consent
- 22. Case sampling that involves selecting cases that illustrate or highlight what is typical, average, normal, or representative.
Down
- 1. Comprised of study participants
- 2. standard deviation of a sampling distribution of the mean (abbrv.)
- 4. An abstract entity that brings meaning and identity to a current experience and its variant manifestations.
- 5. Group of participants whose performance on an outcome is used to evaluate the performance of the treatment control group on the same outcome.
- 7. Interviews may be conducted by researchers who do not have a preconceived view of the content or flow of information to be gathered
- 9. Regression used to determine a straight-line fit to the data that minimizes deviations from the line.
- 10. Response theory an alternate measurement theory gaining in popularity.
- 11. The faith that can be put in the researcher is researcher ___________
- 12. Bias that is consistent and distorts results in a single direction.
- 16. Matching involving using information about people’s characteristics to create compatible groups.
- 19. Evaluations are often the cornerstone of ______ research.