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Important Terms

Glossary


Please complete the definitions for the following terms.


Abstract

Accidental Sample

Analysis


Bias (Researcher Bias)


Case study

Categories

Causation

Central tendency

Citation

Common Sense

Conclusion

Content Analysis

Convenience Sample

Correlation

Cross-sectional Survey


Deduction

Dependent Variable

Descriptive


Electronic Journal

Empirical data

Ethnocentrism

Experiment

Explanatory

Exploratory


Field work

Frequency


Generalization


Holism

Hypothesis


Independent Variable

Induction


Journal


Laboratory

Latent Content

Logic

Longitudinal Study


Manifest Content

Mean

Measurement Object

Median

Misappropriation

Mode

Monograph

Monograph

Multimodal


Natural science

Nominal

Non-Participant Fieldwork


Observation Tool

Operationalization

Ordinal


Paraphrase

Participant Fieldwork

Peer-reviewed publication

Plagiarism

Population

Prediction

Purposive Sample


Qualitative Content Analysis

Quantitative Content Analysis

Quota Sample

Quote


Random Assignment

Random Sample

Ratio

Repeatability

Research Method

Research Power


Sample

Science

Skewed Data

Snowball Sample

Stratified Random Sample

Synthesis


Technology

Theory


Unimodal

Variable