D514 Analytical Methods of Healthcare Leaders Pre-Test Terms
Answered Correctly!!!
1. Time-series Looks at equally spaced points in time; usually to compare DATA.
2. Cross-sectional A specific point in time and/or a specific disease process in a geographic area.
3. Pretest-posttest
4. Randomized con- people are allocated at random (by chance) to receive one of several clinical
trol trial interventions. One of the interventions is the "control", which may be standard
practice, a placebo, or no intervention at all.
5. quantitative re- Numerical Data
search
6. What is a char- Introduces subjectivity to data collection
acteristic of qual-
itative research
methods?
7. Clinical trial A scientifically controlled study of the safety and ettectiveness of a therapeutic
agent
8. Case study Non-participant (observational) observation is when researchers investigate one
person, one group, or one institution in depth.
In Professional Journals
9. Cohort study medical research used to investigate the causes of disease, establishing links
between risk factors and health outcomes
CARRIED OUT OVER FUTURE periods of time
10. Meta-analysis uses many ditterent data sources (qualitative and quantitative) to develop 1 con-
clusion with more evidence and power.
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, D514 Analytical Methods of Healthcare Leaders Pre-Test Terms
Answered Correctly!!!
Applies analysis to a problem
11. Literature review informational and reading about the research may help you to make decisions
12. Longitudinal Same as cohort (people are studied over a long period of time)
study
13.
14. Analysis of vari- ANOVA: compare means between independent variables with similar variance and
ance ( normality of distribution.
COMPARE MULTIPLE groups
15. Pearson correla- Test for a relationship between two quantitative variables that are interval or ratio
tion coefficient data types.
Ex. Blood pressure and age
16. Mann-Whitney U Compares 2 samples from the same population to see if they are equal or not.
test
++ sometimes used for comparing the ettectiveness of two treatments in clinical
trials.
17. Bayesian ap- An advanced mathematical procedure that applies probabilities to statistical prob-
proach lems.
Helps people to update their beliefs
18. Regression analy- estimating the relationships among variables
sis
Used to analyze and adjust risk- looks at each measured factor to the patient's risk
of a particular outcome.
19. Used for comparing the ettectiveness of two treatments in clinical trials.
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Answered Correctly!!!
1. Time-series Looks at equally spaced points in time; usually to compare DATA.
2. Cross-sectional A specific point in time and/or a specific disease process in a geographic area.
3. Pretest-posttest
4. Randomized con- people are allocated at random (by chance) to receive one of several clinical
trol trial interventions. One of the interventions is the "control", which may be standard
practice, a placebo, or no intervention at all.
5. quantitative re- Numerical Data
search
6. What is a char- Introduces subjectivity to data collection
acteristic of qual-
itative research
methods?
7. Clinical trial A scientifically controlled study of the safety and ettectiveness of a therapeutic
agent
8. Case study Non-participant (observational) observation is when researchers investigate one
person, one group, or one institution in depth.
In Professional Journals
9. Cohort study medical research used to investigate the causes of disease, establishing links
between risk factors and health outcomes
CARRIED OUT OVER FUTURE periods of time
10. Meta-analysis uses many ditterent data sources (qualitative and quantitative) to develop 1 con-
clusion with more evidence and power.
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, D514 Analytical Methods of Healthcare Leaders Pre-Test Terms
Answered Correctly!!!
Applies analysis to a problem
11. Literature review informational and reading about the research may help you to make decisions
12. Longitudinal Same as cohort (people are studied over a long period of time)
study
13.
14. Analysis of vari- ANOVA: compare means between independent variables with similar variance and
ance ( normality of distribution.
COMPARE MULTIPLE groups
15. Pearson correla- Test for a relationship between two quantitative variables that are interval or ratio
tion coefficient data types.
Ex. Blood pressure and age
16. Mann-Whitney U Compares 2 samples from the same population to see if they are equal or not.
test
++ sometimes used for comparing the ettectiveness of two treatments in clinical
trials.
17. Bayesian ap- An advanced mathematical procedure that applies probabilities to statistical prob-
proach lems.
Helps people to update their beliefs
18. Regression analy- estimating the relationships among variables
sis
Used to analyze and adjust risk- looks at each measured factor to the patient's risk
of a particular outcome.
19. Used for comparing the ettectiveness of two treatments in clinical trials.
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