What Is the Purpose of an Institutional Review Board

question 71

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of an institutional review board?

• A)to safeguard the rights and welfare of research participants
• B)to hinder the research process by placing unnecessary hurdles in the way of researchers
• C)to help protect the university from lawsuits from unhappy research participants
• D)to encourage the use of deception in medical and psychological research with humans

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Definitions:

Multinomial Experiment

An experiment consisting of a fixed number of trials where each trial has multiple possible outcomes.

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect exists within a set of given observations or parameters.

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically denoted as alpha (α).

Contingency Table

A tabular method for displaying the frequencies of different outcomes in a sample, allowing for analysis of the association between categorical variables.