The Purpose of an Institutional Review Board Is ____

question 31

Multiple Choice

The purpose of an Institutional Review Board is ____.

• A)to prevent ethical violations and judge whether the research being proposed follows reasonable ethical guidelines
• B)to design research studies,test hypothesizes,and secure funding
• C)to generate theories,measure variables,and publish findings in peer-review journals
• D)supervise and monitor research that is being conducted and to support the mission of the university

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a specified level of confidence.

Population Variance

The measurement of how data points in an entire population are spread out from the mean of the population.

Standard Deviation

The measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Variance

Measures the spread between numbers in a dataset, indicating how much the data points differ from the mean.