Practicum 1 Context The emergent disastrous events are dreadful and unpredictable‚ such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks，which are often threaten the security of people’s lives and properties. When it takes place‚ public desire for the factual and credible information from various channels. They want to know immediately what happened? Are my family and I safe? And who caused this? They are also concerned about the decision-making by empowerment or whether they can be involved as participants
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A statistical test is a formal technique‚ for arriving at a decision about the reasonableness of a hypothesis‚ based on some probability distribution. The test technique uses the values obtained from sample data to arrive at a probability statement about the hypothesis. But it also uses some assertions about the population from which the sample is drawn. Some of the important assumptions are like: Population is normally distributed Sample drawn is a random sample But in case of Non-parametric
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A hypothesis is a speculation or theory based off of insufficient evidence which can later be tested to be proven true or false. An example of a hypothesis would be testing if one type of drug performed better to prevent seizures than the other. A Null hypothesis is a hypothesis that says there is no statistical significance between variables in a given hypothesis. An example of a null hypothesis would be there is no statistical relationship between which type of drug used and the amount of prevented
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Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research There has been a large amount of complex discussion and argument surrounding the topic of research methodology and the theory of how studies should push forward. Majority of this debate has centered on the issue of qualitative versus quantitative study. Different methods become popular at different social‚ political‚ historical and cultural times in our development‚ and‚ both methods have their strengths and weaknesses. The researcher and/or the culture
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Hypothesis Testing Paper Homelessness is an ever growing problem that the numbers seem to increase in severity in the larger cities. Chicago‚ Illinois has numbers that exceed more than 93‚000 individuals that are homeless and out of those there is close to 20‚000 that also suffer with a mental illness. In addressing the link between mental illness and homelessness it is clear that the numbers are large due to lack of medical care and the de-institutionalization from the 1960’s. In an attempt to
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OVERVIEW Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector’s Field Guide Module 1 Qualitative Research Methods Overview F A M I L Y H E A L T H I N T E R N A T I O N A L Qualitative Research Methods Overview OVERVIEW T • • • • • • his module introduces the fundamental elements of a qualitative approach to research‚ to help you understand and become proficient in the qualitative methods discussed in subsequent modules. We recommend that you consult the suggested readings
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CONCEPTS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (An Essay) By Deborah Sitorus One of the ways to gain knowledge is by carrying out some research. As what Zacharia (2012) stated that in daily life most people conduct research to gain knowledge. A research can be carried out qualitatively or quantitatively depends on the research purposes and needs and the type of information the researcher is seeking. My concern in this essay is to briefly share my understandings about basic concepts of qualitative research that
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By doing so with conclusive reasons so that the beliefs are true. The hyperbolic doubt is used as a cover up to what Descartes says to be true. 2. Why does Descartes use the hypothesis of an evil genius? Is it not enough to say that we could be dreaming? What can be doubted on this new hypothesis and what cannot? - Descartes uses the hypothesis of an “evil genius” meaning he himself exist as a thinking thing. He wants to get out that there are things out
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Bryant Human Biology September 23‚ 2011 Tracing the Scientific Method 1. While the hypothesis is never explicitly stated‚ it is safe to assume that the researchers’ hypothesis is that coffee does in fact‚ prevent the development of high blood sugar. The question used to form this hypothesis was‚ does the ingestion of coffee prevent the development of hyperglycemia in mice? 2. The control group in this study would be the 11 mice that were given the water. They would be considered the control group
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RUNNING HEAD: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CRTIQUE Qualitative Research Article Critique November 16‚ 2011 Overall critique: This paper is an article critique written by Alexander & Clare (2004) titled: You still feel different: The experience and meaning of women’s self-injury in the context of a lesbian or bisexual identity. This study’s purpose was to explore the meaning behind females’ self-injurious behavior within the context of being a lesbian or bisexual. It aimed to better understand this
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