Class Activity Crossword (chapter 11) Flashcards
Statistics designed to address objectives, questions, or hypotheses in studies to allow inference from the study sample to the target population: ______ statistics.
Inferential
Summary statistics that allow researchers to organize data in ways that give meaning and facilitate insight: ______Statistics.
Descriptive
Theory with the assumption that all of the groups used to test a particular hypothesis are components of the same population relative to the variables under study: _______ Theory.
Decision
Findings acquired from a specific study that are applied to a target population.
Generalization
Error that occurs with the rejection of the null hypothesis when it is true: ________ error.
Type I
Error that occurs with the acceptance of the null hypothesis when it is false: _______ error.
Type II
Theory used to explain the extent of a relationship, the likelihood an event will occur in a given situation or the likelihood that an event can be accurately predicted: ________theory.
Probability
The probability that a statistical test will detect a significant difference or relationship that exists.
Power
The meaning of research findings for the body of nursing knowledge, theory, and practice: _________ for nursing.
Implications
Groups selected so the participants are unrelated to the selection of other subjects: ________groups.
Independent
Level of significance that is set at the start of a study.
Alpha
Paired groups where subjects in the control group are matched to the subjects in the experimental group based on selected variables, such as levels of an illness or age: _______group.
Dependent
Subjects or data points with extreme values that seem unlike the rest of the sample.
Outliers
Indicates the degree to which a phenomenon is present in a population, such as the strength of a relationship between two variables, or the degree to which the null hypothesis is false: ______size
Effect
