Budget, research, statistics (section 11-14)

Question 1

Audit (as the term applies to budget execution) is

Answer 1

Audit (budget execution)

check on the legality of expenditures and is based on the appropriations act

Question 2

Evaluative Research

Answer 2

Evaluative Research is the process of. determining whether a social intervention has produced the intended result. (sjsu.edu)

Question 3

Control Group

Answer 3

Control group, the standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment. Many experiments are designed to include a control group and one or more experimental groups; in fact, some scholars reserve the term experiment for study designs that include a control group. www.britannica.com/science/control-group

Question 4

panels (in survey)

Answer 4

A panel is a group of respondents that serves as a continuous source of survey information

Question 5

decision tree

Answer 5

A decision tree is a flow-chart-like structure, where each internal (non-leaf) node denotes a test on an attribute, each branch represents the outcome of a test, and each leaf (or terminal) node holds a class label. The topmost node in a tree is the root node. (wikipedia)

Question 6

Time Series Design

Answer 6

Time Series Design

A variation of the pretest/posttest design, this design collects data over regular intervals of time and aims to assess an intervention/program before, during, and after it concludes. A time-series design may integrate a control or comparison group. If so, it may more closely resemble a quasi-experimental or experimental design.

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