NSG 3301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Menopause, Blood Sugar, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
27 Feb 2017
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Chapter 4: developing research questions, hypotheses, and clinical questions. Critical thinking decision path: selecting a research process. Include pg 32 from text. (she really likes it ;) ) A concise, interrogative statement written in the present tense and including one or more variables/concepts. Research questions focus on: describing variables (concepts that explains what the study is about, specifying the population being studied, examining testable relationships among variables. A variable is an attribute or property in which organisms vary (people, events, objects: ex. Independent variable (iv) the variable that has the presumed effect on the dependent variable (dv) It is either manipulated or not manipulated: dependent variable is where you see the change. Dependent variable (dv) the presumed effect that varies with a change in the independent variable (iv) It is not manipulated, cannot be changed or altered. Independent (experimental: variable being manipulated, causes a change or affects the dependent variable. Dependent (outcome: the observed result of what is being manipulated.
