NRS502

In research, Positivism is an approach that:

A researcher wants to see if increased screen time is associated with vision changes over time in children. Whats best?

What are trial arms in RCT

What is a Equivalence study?

Which of the following are Qualitative (multiple choice)

Deductive is:

Why is randomisation to groups important in a randomised controlled trial? 

Inductive is:

Which of the following are Quantitative (multiple choice)

Which research design is best to determine which of 2 treatments was most effective for patients with multiple sclerosis

Incidence means: the number of times something occurs

What is a type of Inferential Statistic?

What are trial arms in RCT

The process of setting asides ones own beliefs and assumptions to avoid bias is called:

Response Bias is best described as:

A vaccine study which used double-blind experimental design is most likely trying to reduce which threats to validity?

What does PICOT stand for?

Inductive means:

How best could reflexivity be described in the context of qualitative research? 

If the results from a trial indicate the differences between two groups have a p-value of <0.01, what does this mean? 

What does PARiHS stand for?

Which is not a measure of Descriptive Statistics?

Empirical is the notion of discovering new things using different methods

Deductive means:

What is Phrase Searching

In random stratified sampling, how is the population divided?

Which research approach prioritises the practical consequences  / outcomes of theories?

a quasi-experiment is randomised?

Inferential Statistics use a random sample of data taken from a population to make inferences about the population?

Positivism best supports which research method?

What is Member Checking?

What is a Paradigm?

Why is randomisation important?

What is the primary focus of positivism in research?