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Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, Third Edition

Foundations of Clinical Research

Applications to Practice, Third Edition

by

Leslie G. Portney
Mary P. Watkins

Welcome to the online study guide, designed to accompany Foundations of Clinical Research by Leslie Portney and Mary Watkins. This website is a free auxiliary to the textbook where you will find study suggestions, review exercises and useful resources related to each chapter of the text. If the review questions are incorporated into your class, your instructor may request that you e-mail your answers to receive feedback on your responses. To get started, simply select a chapter from the menu bar on the top page or click on one of the chapter titles below.

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Chapter 1: A Concept of Clinical Research

Chapter 2: The Role of Theory in Clinical Research

Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Clinical Research

Chapter 4: Principles of Measurement

Chapter 5: Reliability of Measurements

Chapter 6: Validity of Measurements

Chapter 7: Asking the Research Question

Chapter 8: Sampling

Chapter 9: Validity in Experimental Design

Chapter 10: Experimental Designs

Chapter 11: Quasi-experimental Designs

Chapter 12: Single-subject Designs

Chapter 13: Exploratory Research: Observational Designs

Chapter 14: Descriptive Research

Chapter 15: Surveys and Questionnaires

Chapter 16: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis

Chapter 17: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 18: Statistical Inference

Chapter 19: Comparing Two Means: The t-test

Chapter 20: Comparing More that Two Means: Analysis of Variance

Chapter 21: Multiple Comparison Tests

Chapter 22: Nonparametric Tests for Group Comparisons

Chapter 23: Correlation

Chapter 24: Regression

Chapter 25: Measures of Association for Categorical Variables: Chi-Square

Chapter 26: Statistical Measures of Reliability

Chapter 27: Statistical Measures of Validity

Chapter 28: Epidemiology: Measures of Risk

Chapter 29: Multivariate Analysis

Chapter 30: Data Management

Chapter 31: Searching the Literature

Chapter 32: Writing a Research Proposal

Chapter 33: Reporting the Results of Clinical Research

Chapter 34: Evaluating Research Reports


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