What Can an Institutional Review Board Do If It Has

question 8

Multiple Choice

What can an institutional review board do if it has reservations about the safety or ethics of a research project?

• A) It may appoint new researchers to complete the project.
• B) It may stop the project from going forward, at least until changes have been made.
• C) It may issue recommendations for future research.
• D) It may provide assistance to any research participants whose rights have been violated.

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Definitions:

Sample Standard Deviation

A statistic measuring the dispersion or variability of a set of sample data points around the mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all values in a population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or entities used in a study or experiment.

Measure of Variability

A statistic that describes the dispersion of data points in a dataset, such as range, variance, or standard deviation.