Is often used when working with large numbers of observations, allowing researchers to analyze data in a systematic and convenient way
What is statistical anaylsis
100
The processes of gathering, reading and summarizing research on a topic you are investigating is know as what?
What is the literature review
100
The process of converting answers into numbers so that researchers can measure the association between responses given to one question (usually the dependent variable)and responses given to a different question (usually the independent variable).
What is operationalization
100
This is commonly used in large N analyses when the dependent variable is ordinal. This estimates the impact the independent variables have on the likelihood of observations being in the next highest category of the dependent variable.
What is ordered logistic regression
200
This allows researchers to identify various characteristics of large groups
What is descriptive statistics
200
What types of articles do you use for your literature review?
What are articles published in peer-reviewed or refereed journals and academic books
200
Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio are all what?
What is levels of measurement
200
This is the accuracy of estimates, given that they are coming from a sample of the population that is being generalized to.
What are standard errors
300
A research question must be both _____ and _____ important
What is theoretically and politically
300
This allows researchers to make inferences about a number of things based on our results, including the relationships between different variables, and the generalizability of sample results to a population
What is inferential statistics
300
Socio-demographic, cultural, contextual, and transnational variables are all what?
What is variables that cause the independent variable, naturalization
300
To examine the distribution of the dependent variable, we generate some _____ ______, which tell us something about the distribution or central tendency of a single variable
What is descriptive statistics
300
This refers to the statistical significance of the relationship in the multivariate model
What is the "p" value
400
___-_______ is a significant factor impeding Latino political empowerment
What is non-citizenship
400
This is a problem of relying on non-experimental data
What is the difficulty to isolate casual relationships (researchers ability to account for multiple causes for the dependent variable)
400
The literature review identified a number of _______ about why immigrants pursue or do not pursue naturalization
What are hypotheses
400
What does it mean when the difference in means among groups in a sample are statistically significant?
What is the probability of the null hypothesis being correct is very low
400
Attitudes about voting significantly impact the choice to become citizens among _________ only
What are women
500
Out of 23 million adult Latinos, only _____ are US citizens
What is 13.2 million or 57%
500
The ability to generalize findings to larger populations
What is external validity
500
What are the 2 key hypotheses that had never been examined before in the literature?
What is (1) Immigrants with positive political orientations are more likely to naturalize (2) The factors structuring the naturalization decision are going to vary by gender.
500
The observation and analysis of more than one statistical outcome variable at a time is called what?
What is multivariate analysis
500
Interest in politics exerts a significant impact on pursing citizenship for ____ but not ______