Nursing RESEARCH Flashcards
4 levels of measurement
Nominal, ordinal, ratio, interval
Lowest form of measurement. Data can only be named or categorized
Nominal / Categorical
Gender (NORI?)
Nominal
Religious Affilitiations. What type of data?
Nominal
Data that can be arrnged though rank.
Ordinal / Ranking Variable
Education Attainment. What type of data?
Ordinal
Data can be categorized and ranked. Has an equal numerical distance. NO ABSOLUTE ZERO.
Interval
Highest form of measurement WITH natural or absolite ZERO
Ratio
Bank account
Ratio
Height and Weight
Ratio
Steo 9 in Research
Analysis of Data
Describe, summarize, anuze numerical values.
Descriptive
To make conclusion. To test hypothesis
Inferential
7 steps of testing hypothesis
- State the hypothesis
- Determine the tailed tests
- Determine the level of significance
- Compute the p value
- Determine the statistical test
- Calculate the t value, f value, x2.
- Make a decision.
The primary goal in stating the hypothesis
REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS