WGU (C224) Research Foundations Questions and Answers Graded A

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Non-Experimental Research Methods ✔✔Correlation and Casual Comparative Correlation research method ✔✔non-experimantal research method. A process to collect data to determine if a relationshi... p exists between two or more quantitative variables, and to what degree. Correlation Coefficient ✔✔Strength and direction of a relationship between two variables. range of +1 to -1 Positive Correlation ✔✔r=+1 (points follow along a line) Negative Correlation ✔✔r=-1 (no correlation is a 0 and looks like a gun shot all over) Variable ✔✔a condition or characteristic that can take on different values or categories (such as age, GPA, gender, etc.) Descriptive Statistics ✔✔Goal is to describe, summarize, or make sense of a particular set of data. Inferential Statistics ✔✔where researchers use the laws of probability to make inferences about populations based on sample data. Strengths of Quantitative Research ✔✔-Testing and validating already constructed theories -Can generalize research findings when based on random samples -Determining nomothetic consump [Show More]

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