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Which term below refers to the process of ensuring the accuracy of data and their conversion from raw form into classified forms appropriate for analysis? |
| | 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 coding each variable in the study. |
| | A) | codebook |
| | B) | cookbook |
| | C) | data dictionary |
| | D) | pilot test |
| | E) | research proposal |
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Which of the following guidelines must be followed in the development and use of coding rules? |
| | A) | categories within a single variable must be appropriate |
| | B) | categories within a single variable must be exhaustive |
| | C) | categories within a single variable must be mutually exclusive |
| | D) | categories must be derived from one classification principles |
| | 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) | ANOVA |
| | B) | regression |
| | C) | content analysis |
| | D) | factor analysis |
| | 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) | Excluding |
| | E) | Clustering |
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In determining what caused missing data to be missing, if the probability of missingness 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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Which method deals with missing values by estimation using all cases that had data for each variable in the analysis? |
| | A) | pair-wise 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 columns identify _____. |
| | A) | records |
| | B) | variables |
| | C) | categories |
| | D) | coding instructions |
| | E) | variable labels |
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