Match the Descriptor with the Correct Term

question 34

Multiple Choice

Match the descriptor with the correct term.
-Person time/person years

• A)Faulty memory
• B)The tendency to select persons under frequent medical care
• C)The tendency to ask questions differently or probe more if it is known that the person has the disease
• D)Quantifies the amount of risk due to a certain characteristic Ire/IRo
• E)The ability of a test instrument to measure what it is supposed to measure
• F)Identified by pre-existing records developed in the past
• G)Accumulated period of time each person is in the study
• H)Percent of all True non-cases correctly identified
• I)Reliability between more than one research assistant or observer
• J)Examples: all new employees within a hospital, all new students in the first grade

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Definitions:

Uncertain Duration

Describes a time period whose end point is not predetermined or known, often applying to contracts or agreements.

Ownership Interests

The legal rights and claims an individual or entity has over a property or business.

Partition

The division of real property among co-owners so that each owns a specific portion of the property, or the sale of such property and division of proceeds among co-owners.

Voluntary Act

An action undertaken by an individual with full awareness and of free will, without coercion.