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| Which part of a scientific paper talks about the weaknesses of the article? |
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| Surveys, Case Reports, and Case Series are all examples of what classification of research design? |
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What type of PRE-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN is "essentially several case reports; involving a group of pts"?
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| Which type of PRE-EXPERIMENTAL design is "written by healthcare practitioners to describe an unusual condition, or a novel treatment-simply to observe and record"? |
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| T or F: A CASE-REPORT is designed to show a possible cause and effect relationship. |
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FALSE
...a case report can NOT prove anything (pg. 23 notes). |
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| Why do ppl use PRE-EXPERIMENTAL design then, if it essentially can't prove anything? |
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B/c they are
-inexpensive, and
-easy to perform.
....They can eventually lead to further research. They can raise important ?'s. |
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What decade:
The new zealand report |
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What decade:
First RCT test involving chiropractic. |
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What decade:
First US government funding of chiro. research. |
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What decade:
Chiropractic included in medicare. |
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| Started in 70's, but ENDED in the 90's |
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JMPT first published.
When was JMPT indexed in INDEX MEDICUS (NLM). |
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First RAND study published on chiro. |
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What decade:
Inclusion of chiro. care for all us military mandated. |
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| Who said "If the profession continues to publish theory, in the absense of scientific support, and continues to waste its funds on outrageous advertising rather than investigate the truth of the theory...the last 20 yrs will have been wasted"? |
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| What is it when treatment group and control group switch roles? |
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Measurement presumed cause and effect AT THE SAME TIME. Doctor visit common prior to ones death, is the doctor visit a riskk factor?
-What is are these examples of? |
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| What is a study "carried out over time"? |
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| Observations made over a period of time AS THE EVENTS OCCUR. |
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| Consistency of observations of the SAME ovserver. |
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| Observations BETWEEN DIFFERENT observers. |
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| Phenomenon of interest in a research study (treatment). |
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_______ tells us the ratio of the odds of a risk factor or disease being present/odds of the risk factor or disease not being present.
-Only expressed at a 95% confidence ratio
-Typically, 10 or less. |
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What does this represent?
0-------------x-------------o |
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What does this represent?
o-----------x------------o
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What does this represent?
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What does this represent?
R---O-------x-----O
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One STANDARD DEVIATION = ______%.
One STANDARD DEVIATION from the mean =________. |
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| What is the most common t-test? |
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| The INDEPENDANT t-test, or t-test 3. |
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| What studies NUISANCE VARIABLES? |
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| Which are performed first? Parametric or non-parametric? |
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| Which test is performed when the "expectation of normalcy is violated"? |
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| What tests are based on the MEDIAN rather than the MEAN of the sample. |
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| Parametric and Non-parametric |
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| T or F: Non-parametric tests need only a slight change or difference needs to be present in the data before it can be detected. |
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-Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
-Wilcoxon Ranked Sum Test
-Kruskal-Wallis Test
...are all examples of what? |
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| Spearman's Rho, parametric or non-parametric? |
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| pearson test, PARAMETRIC or NON-PARAMETRIC? |
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| What are Kappa tests used for? |
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convey two things:
1.) INTERexaminer, and
2.) INTRAexaminer reliability |
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| What are the 3 steps to the SCIENTIFIC METHOD? |
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-observation of phenomenon
-formulation of hypothesis
-Experiment to test that hypo. yo. |
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| "Findings must be able to explain more than the specific items/subjects being studied. |
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| ____ is when a change in variable A produces a change in variable b. |
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| What type of analysis is used to see how well dataq fits a straight line? |
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| What is referred to as "least fit", or "best fit"? |
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| What is the goal of experimental research? |
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| To attempt to control ALL the threats to internal validity. |
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| The effect a subject's knowledge that they are in a experiment is _______. |
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| When the researcher unintentionally modifies the subject's behavior through active or passive cues. |
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