What timing of data collection is indicated by the following notation of a a mixed methods study?

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a)Concurrent design, with quantitative data collection given the priority

b)Sequential design, with quantitative data collection given the priority

c)Sequential design, with quantitative and qualitative data collection given equal priority

d)Concurrent design, with quantitative and qualitative data collection given equal priority

What is the correct interpretation of the term "statistical significance"?

a)The results are not likely to have occurred by chance.

b)The effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable is large.

c)The results are clinically important.

d)Causality is established between the independent variable and the dependent variable.

Which of the following diagrams/figures/tables is used to show the two sets of scores for a sample where a correlation is being examined between two variables of interval/ratio level of measurement?

a)Consort diagram

b)Scatterplot

c)Crosstabulations table

d)Frequency table

A nurse researcher examines the results of an ANOVA used to examine symptom management scores among 4 groups of persons discharged to home following hospitalization for acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. The overall ANOVA is F=8.7, df (3, 116), p = .012. What should be the next action by the researcher?

a)Report the findings as statistically non-significant.

b)Perform a post-HOC analysis (i.e. multiple comparisons testing).