TWU-PT DPT Research Course

You must include the critical value from your t-test in your manuscript.

It is important for your data to look curvilinear if you plan on running parametric stats.

What is a PICO used for?

A 12 year old child will be asked to sign a consent/assent before participating in research.

Based on the total line, do you think the evidence suggests "less frequent changes."

In what section of a manuscript would you find the article's strengths and weaknesses?

Cohen's d is a measure of _________.

If one rater uses a measure 3x to see if she can get the same score...it's called:

What is the strongest type of literature according to the CEBM pyramid?

It is harder to get significance if you have a large variance.

If you sample every 50th student at University of Houston that walks by, it's called ____.

One of the biggest problems with researching children is the issue of ______.

Including all participants in your data analysis, including dropouts...is called:

An ABA design is often used with _______.

A systematic review of cohort studies is considered level ___.

Systematic reviews are often more current than RCTs.

If you increase your effect size, you are also increasing your power.

A t-statistic is most similar to a(n)

If a panel of experts reviews a survey for the appriateness of the questions, it's called:

Ideally, you would like the SEM of your sample to be as ________ as possible.

It is harder to get significance if you have a large sample.

PEDro scale is used to evaluate

What does a CAT stand for?

Mode, median, and the mean are all measures of...

It is harder to get significance if you have a large difference in the means.

A ROC curve with an AUC of .90 shows that the test is good at diagnosing a condition.

For the assumption of HOV to be met, which test should NOT be significant?

If a tool has .90 sensitivity, it is best at...

Typically power is set by the researcher at:

The most common point estimate used in parametric statistics is

If a researcher runs two t-tests, he/she should compare their SPSS results to what value?

Which of the following is NOT a part of EBP?

Research involving children will almost always require ____ level of IRB review.

Which test is used to identify an influential outlier?

Should you worry if you get a positive test result and the +PPV is .90?

Which dependent variable is mostly likely to need an operational definition?

In one word, what differentiates a systematic review and a meta-analysis?

A RCT is considered a(n) ________ type of research.

How many articles were included in this tree plot?

Non-parametric stats require assumptions such as HOV and normality.

You can have a valid measure that is not reliable.

It's important to consider what is meaningful change to a person, this value is called:

The range is a measure of

The lowest level of the CEBM pyramid is level ___.

If the mean for a test is 50 and the standard deviation is 10, a score of 55 has a z-score of

Which variable is manipulated in research?

Interval/ratio data should be considered ____ data.

TWU wants you to become not only a consumer of literature, but a ________ of literature.

The standardized residuals shown here look appropriate for parametric stats.

If you say there is no significant difference, and there really was....you committed a:

Which of the following is primary source evidence?

There are 10 RCT studies on a given topic, what grade of evidence would you assign?

This data has a problem meeting which assumption?

A +LR of 10 increases the probability of the disease with a + test by ____%.

If the critical region is divided into 2.5% areas, you know the data was analyzed using a(n)

If one group is tested every month for 6 months, it's called a

The more levels in a tool, the more responsive it is to change.

The reason both arms of a person can't be in two different groups is due to the assumption of

A 2x2 ANOVA will have ____ independent variables.

Which of the following is NOT a type of research validity in this course?

What is typically set at .05?

"Participation is voluntary" must be included in all IRB applications.

If the difference in two means is 10 and the SD is 5, what is the effect size?

The most points you can get for a PEDro review is

An effect size of .2 is considered

This data has a _____ skew.

If you run 20 t-tests, the alpha level (error rate) will be smaller than you expect.

If you say there is a significant difference, but you are wrong, you committed a....

What software is exclusively designed to calculate power?

If two raters have a correlation of .90, you can also say they agree on many of the ratings.