Research Foundations Quiz #4 Winter 2020

A variable that can take on any value in a continuum.

Literature not found in peer-reviewed journals can be referred to as:

Values in this category are of equal units.

______ is a way of reducing type II errors.

Effect size is something you will see compared in which type of study?

These are done when a topic has limited published studies on the topic.

A _____ hypothesis is stating that there will be no difference between groups in a trial.

A funnel plot is used to provide a summary statistic in meta-analyses.

These types of errors result when an author falsely concludes their intervention had no effect when it did.

This plot is used to display correlation.

These type of statistics allow researchers to infer characteristics about a population.

A meta-analysis is a:

Descriptive statistics are used in describing basic information about groups, such as:

_____ refers to a value or characteristic of/for a population.

These types of errors result when an author falsely concludes their intervention had an effect when it did not.

Publication bias and poor quality studies are threats to both:

A forest plot will include a cumulative summary statistic.

Which is more important?

A forest plot is used to display the analysis for publication bias?

Histograms display frequencies for responses.