Research Terms
Sample
What is the small group selected from a larger group to participate in a study?
Likert Scale
What is oridinal?
A t-test is an example of this type of statistical test
What are inferential statistical tests?
Represented by the symbol U
What is Mann-Whitney U test?
Translating research to improve patient care
What is evidence-based practice?
term represents the most frequent score in a frequency distribution
What is mode?
Height
What is ratio?
power analysis
What is a statistical procedure for determining the required sample size?
Parametric test used to compare three or more groups with interval level data
What is ANOVA?
Replication Research
What is the process of repeating or duplicating a study in order to build support for an outcome?
represented by a bell-shaped curve
What is normal distribution?
Gender
What is nominal?
Frequencies are examples of this type of statistics
What is descriptive statistics?
Used to analyze relationships between two interval level variable.
What is Pearson's r?
three types of outcomes research
What are care-related, performance related, and patient-related?
one who is willing to try new things in practice, using evidence, to enhance the quality of patient care and to foster nursing knowledge
Who is an Innovator?
GPA
What is interval?
Represented by the symbol X2
What is Chi Square?
Three P's of Dissemination
What are poster, presentation, and paper?
Transmit new knowledge to improve patient care
What is dissemination?
Statistical tests used with interval and ratio
What are parametric tests?
type I error
What is the rejection of a null hypothesis that is actually true?; a decision that a relationship between variables does exist when in fact it does not.
Standard acceptable p value in nursing
What is p<0.05?
Steps of an EBP Project
What are: Develop PICO Question, Collect Evidence, Evaluate Evidence, Translate to Practice (if Sufficient Evidence) ?