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definitions
qualitative research
analyzing data
measurement
quantitative statistics
100
represents all elements or individuals who meet certain defined criteria
What is population
100
how an inquirer persuades the audience that her or his findings are worth attending to
What is trustworthiness?
100
range around a specific point used to estimate population parameter
What is confidence interval?
100
categories of data; no ordering
What is nominal level of measurement?
100
type of analysis that examines a dv using an iv
What is bivariate analysis?
200
small group or subset of the larger population pool
What is sample
200
the process of talking to others about the research to build credibility of researcher
What is peer debriefing?
200
risk factor or probability or error
What is alpha level?
200
ranking (excellent to poor); likert scale
What is ordinal level of measurement?
200
statistical procedure that provides a test of association between categorical (nominal) variables
What is chi square?
300
used to summarize data coming from either a sample or a population (i.e. age, race, education level)
What are descriptive statistics?
300
the opportunity to show the findings from the research to participants prior to finalizing them
What is member checking?
300
testing an alternative hypothesis
What is null hypothesis?
300
adding a numerical value to each category
What is coding?
300
tests with a normal curve and larger sample size; DV measured at interval or ratio
What are parametric tests?
400
those variables that help us analyze the data by sorting and categorizing (i.e. age- do older than younger?)
What is the independent variable?
400
the process of recording, verbatim, raw data. Usually using a tape recorder
What is transcribing?
400
provides markers to understand how scores in a normal distribution are distributed about the mean
What is standard deviation?
400
arithmetic average- sum of all scores divided by number of scores
What is the mean?
400
tests for differences in means of two groups; interval/ratio dv and nominal variable with two groups
What is t-test?
500
the thing that we are trying to understand or predict- the subject or hypothesis
What is the dependent variable?
500
the computer program most often used in qualitative research
What is Atlas.ti?
500
mathematical likelihood that an event will occur
What is probability?
500
extreme high or extreme low scores
What are outliers?
500
statistical software most commonly used for quantitative statistics
What is SPSS?