Critical Thinking Questions

1. Why should a nurse researcher examine the data before conducting a data analysis?
2. Where would information about the treatment of missing data be found in a research report?

Critical Thinking Questions

A). Where would information about the treatment of missing data be found in a report of research?

B). Suppose that one of the collected variables was "Birth Year" and we found that one of the respondents wrote down the current year instead of the actual date of birth. What seems to be an appropriate action for this data?

C). It is incorrect to say that a correlation coefficient of .60 is twice as strong as a coefficient of .30. Why is this?

D). Covariance is a measure of relationships, but it is treated as a crude measure of relationships when compared to correlation, why is this?