Evidence-Based Decision Making
Quantitative research is a means by which one can gain factual knowledge. Today, a number of such study design options are available to the researcher. However, when studying these quantifications, the researcher must still make a judgment on the interpretation of those statistical findings. To others, what may seem like conflicting, confusing, or ambiguous data requires thoughtful interpretation. Information for decision making is said to be almost never complete, and researchers always work with a certain level of uncertainty. The need for making and providing proper interpretation of the data findings requires that error-prone humans acknowledge how a decision is made.
Much of the knowledge gained in what is known as the evidence-based movement comes from those in the medical field. Statisticians are an integral ...
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Reader's Guide
Descriptive Statistics
Distributions
Graphical Displays of Data
Hypothesis Testing
Important Publications
Inferential Statistics
Item Response Theory
Mathematical Concepts
Measurement Concepts
Organizations
Publishing
Qualitative Research
Reliability of Scores
Research Design Concepts
Research Designs
Research Ethics
Research Process
Research Validity Issues
Sampling
Scaling
Software Applications
Statistical Assumptions
Statistical Concepts
Statistical Procedures
Statistical Tests
Theories, Laws, and Principles
Types of Variables
Validity of Scores
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