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NURSING DL-F quiz 10 Applied Nursing Research

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Question 1 0 out of 4 points Which acronym is used for a widely used statistical software package? Selected Answer: A. COD E Answers: A. COD E B. SAT C. DATA D. SPSS  Question 2 0 out of 4 points A nurse researcher checks responses to a question about the number of children a participant has, which is a question that comes right after a question about whether or not the participant has any children. What is the researcher likely doing? Selected Answer: A. Checking for intercoder reliability Answers: A. Checking for intercoder reliability B. Inspecting for wild codes C. Coding the data D. Performing a consistency check  Question 3 0 out of 4 points A nurse researcher discovers that the distribution of values for a key outcome variable is skewed, thus violating an assumption for most parametric tests. What might the researcher do in this situation? Selected Answer: A. Reverse the direction of the scoring for the variable Answers: A. Reverse the direction of the scoring for the variable B. Use a nonparametric statistical test C. Recode the variable using dummy codes D. Perform a transformation of all the values for that outcome  Question 4 0 out of 4 points A nurse researcher is studying stress levels in a sample of 200 clients with cancer. Two participants did not complete the stress scale and so the researcher computed mean stress levels for 198 participants. What method did the researcher use to address missing values? Selected Answer: C. Pairwise deletion Answers: A. Mean substitution B. Listwise deletion C. Pairwise deletion D. Case mean substitution  Question 5 0 out of 4 points In a clinical trial, a researcher wanted to know if one intervention was equally effective as (not more effective than) another intervention. What would such a trial be called? Selected Answer: B. A quasiexperimental trial Answers: A. A crossover trial B. A quasi- experimental trial C. An equivalence trial D. A noninferiority trial  Question 6 0 out of 4 points A nurse researcher linked study participants’ change scores on a pain measure to their rating of how much their pain had changed on a 1- item rating scale. Which approach did the researcher use to calculate an MIC for the pain measure? Selected Answer: B. An expert panel approach Answers: A. An anchor-based approach B. An expert panel approach C. A distribution approach D. The J-T approach

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