A variable (often denoted by x ) whose variation does not depend on that of another.
What is an independent variable?
100
In this design, researchers use the correlation statistical test to describe and measure the relationship between variables.
What is correlation design?
100
The probability of obtaining a test statistic result at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.
What is the p-value?
200
An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (directly or inversely) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.
What is a confounding variable?
200
A systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains a process, an action, or an interaction about a substantive topic.
What is grounded theory design?
200
The term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data.
What is descriptive statistics?
300
An attribute or characteristic that "stands between" the independent and dependent variables and exercises an influence on the dependent variable apart from the independent variable.
What is an intervening variable?
300
Procedures in quantitative research in which investigators administer a survey to an instrument or to the entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population.
What is survey design?
300
Relating to or denoting a statistical method assessing the goodness of fit between observed values and those expected theoretically.
What is chi-square?
400
A variable (often denoted by y ) whose value depends on that of another.
What is a dependent variable?
400
Qualitative research procedures for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a culture-sharing group’s shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language at that time.
What is ethnographic design?
400
The sharpness of the peak of a frequency-distribution curve.