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Sara is involved in the stage of the research process that ensures accuracy of data and converts data from raw form into classified forms appropriate for analysis. She is involved in the ____ stage of the process. |
| | A) | coding |
| | B) | data entry |
| | C) | data preparation |
| | D) | data measurement |
| | E) | quality control |
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_____ refers to the process of reinterviewing some respondents to verify that they have participated in the study. |
| | A) | Measurement |
| | B) | Reliability analysis |
| | C) | Quality control |
| | D) | Validation |
| | E) | Assessment |
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The _____ contains the rules for assigning variable labels and values for each variable in the study. |
| | A) | codebook |
| | B) | questionnaire |
| | C) | data dictionary |
| | D) | pilot test |
| | E) | research proposal |
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Which of the following guidelines should NOT be employed in the development and use of coding rules? |
| | A) | categories values within a single variable must be appropriate |
| | B) | values within a single variable must be exhaustive |
| | C) | categories within a single variable must be mutually exclusive |
| | D) | categories may be derived from more than one classification principle |
| | E) | all of the above |
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The term _____ refers to an analytical process for measuring the semantic content of a communication. |
| | A) | dirty data |
| | B) | codebook construction |
| | C) | content analysis |
| | D) | field editing |
| | E) | reliability analysis |
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What are propositional units? |
| | A) | objects, events, or people that are described by words, phrases, and sentences |
| | B) | words, phrases, and sentences |
| | C) | assertions about an object, event, or person |
| | D) | topics inferred from the text |
| | E) | sounds referred to in the text |
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Which term below refers to the elimination of trivial words from a content analysis? |
| | A) | Thesaurus searching |
| | B) | Stemming |
| | C) | Aliasing |
| | D) | Exclusion |
| | E) | Clustering |
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In determining what caused missing data to be missing, if the probability of being missing for a particular variable is neither dependent on the variable itself nor any other variable, then the data are _____. |
| | A) | missing completely at random |
| | B) | not missing at random |
| | C) | missing at random |
| | D) | nonignorable missing |
| | E) | indicative of SDR |
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Thomas is working with missing data within his data set. He decides the conditions are appropriate to estimate the missing values by basing the estimates on the data for each variable for all other cases in the data set. Thomas is using ____ for dealing with the missing data. |
| | A) | pairwise deletion |
| | B) | replacement |
| | C) | listwise deletion |
| | D) | minimized deletion |
| | E) | case-specific deletion |
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When viewing data entered into a spreadsheet, the rows identify _____. |
| | A) | records |
| | B) | variables |
| | C) | categories |
| | D) | coding instructions |
| | E) | variable labels |
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