HLSC 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canada Health Act, External Validity, Observational Error
27 Sep 2017
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The 5 principles of the canada health act: Theory (abstract) - a perspective about how something works. Method (concrete) - observations to help confirm or disconfirm one"s perspective/ understanding. A systematic to observe something and make conclusions about something. A systematic approach to inquiry, or a structured process to gather information and evidence to better understand a particular phenomenon. Variable - it has to be something that changes, or has differences; in its root it should vary. E. g. we can use the variables male and female to test likelihoods of depression. Thus, sex would be the variable to predict the outcome/ consequence. Variation (vary) - without variation, science does not exist. Relationship between a dependent and independent variable, and a specification as to the relationship between the two (educated guess) Moving from abstract (theoretical) to observable (measureable) Easy for simple measures, not so much for more abstract measures. External validity - generalized ability of the relationship outside and.
