A researcher studies grip strength in 8-year old healthy boy…
A researcher studies grip strength in 8-year old healthy boys. She believes that if she takes a large enough random sample, she will be able to have more confidence that the average grip strength in 8-year old boys is close to the mean grip strength of the population she is studying. Is she correct?
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Members of a community health task force evaluate a proposal for a new adolescent screening program. Several members of the task force raise questions as to the validity of the screening instrument. Which measure of validity examines the instrument’s ability to identify diseased persons by looking at the number of true positives compared to all those who have the disease?
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A physical therapist is performing clinical research in which a specific massage technique is applied to a patient with chronic back pain. She is using a single-case experimental design with an ABAB format. Her research hypothesis (alternative hypothesis) states that pain-rating scores will decrease with the treatment intervention. The scoring system for the pain rating scale is numeric (0 = no pain, and the higher the pain the higher the score). Rejection of the null hypothesis would be indicated if:
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A therapist does a correlational analysis to measure the strength of the relationship between two types of pulse oximeters during a bicycle exercise under hypoxic conditions. The investigator found measured arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation (%HbO2) levels to have a correlation of r=0.89 at high saturation, but only r=0.68 at low saturation levels. The results of this study suggest:
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