Research Terms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U WXYZ #

A

Absolute Risk
Additive Model
Adjustment?
Age Specific Rate?
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Analytic Study?
Area Sampling?
Ascertainment?
Ascertainment Bias
Association
Attributable Fraction (AF)?
Attributable Risk?
Average?

B

Background Level Rate?
Baseline Data
Bayes Theorem?
Behavioral Epidemic?
Behavioral Risk Factor?
Benefit-Cost Ratio?
Bernoulli Distribution
Beta Error?
Bias
Bimodal Distribution?
Binary Variable
Binomial Distribution?
Biostatistics?
Birthrate?
"Black Box"?
Blind(ed) Study?
Bootstrap?

C

Cancer Registry
Carrier?
Case-Crossover Design?
Case?
Case Control Study
....Nested Case Control Study
Categorical Variable?
Causality?
Censoring?
Chi-Square Test?
Classification?
Clinical Bias
Clinical Decision Analysis?
Clinical Epidemiology
Clinical Trial
Cluster?
Coefficient of Variation?
Cohort Study
Common Rule
Composite Null Hypothesis?
Confidence Intervals
Concordance?
Conditional Probability?
Confidence Interval
Conflict Of Interest
Confounding
Continuous Data/Variable?
Continuous Variable?
Control?
Control Group (Controls)?
Correlation?
Correlation Coefficient?
Cost-Benefit Analysis?
Counts in Output
Covariate?
Cox Regression?
Cronbachs' Alpha?
Crossover Design?
Cross-Sectional Study - Format1
Cross-Sectional Study - Format2

D

Death Rate?
Decision Analysis
Decision Tree?
Degrees of Freedom?
Dependent Variable
Descriptive Variable?
Descriptive Study?
Design Bias?
Detection Bias?
Diagnosis
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS)?
Disease Risk in Populations
Distribution
Dose Effect Relationship?
Double Blind Trial?

E

Ecological Fallacy?
Ecological Study
Effect Measure?
Effect Modifier?
Eligibility Criteria?
Equipose?
Error?
Error, Type I?
Error, Type II?
Estimate?
Event (in survival analysis)?
Evidence-Based Medicine?
Excess Risk?
Expectation of Life?
Explanatory Variable

F

F Distribution?
Factor Analysis?
Factor Design?
False Negative?
False Positive?
Fatality Rate?
Fisher's Exact Test?
Follow-Up Study?
Framingham Heart Study

G

Gaussian Distribution (See Normal Distribution)?
Goodness of Fit?
Growth Rate of Population?
Guttman Scale?

H

Half-Life?
Halo Effect
Haphazard Sample?
Hawthorne Effect?
Hazard Rate?
Hazard Ratio?
Healthy Year Equivalents (HYES)?
Heuristic Method?
Historical Cohort Study?
Historical Control?
Hosmer-Lemeshow Test (H-L Test)
Household Sample Survey?
Human Development Index?

I

Impact fraction?
Inception Cohort?
Incidence
Independent Variable
Index Group?
Indicator Variable?
Infant Mortality Rate?
Inference?
Information Bias?
Intention To Treat Analysis?
Interaction?
Intermediate Variable?
Intervention Study?
Interviewer Bias?

J

Jackknife

K

Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Kappa?
Kurtosis

L

Large Sample Method?
Latin Square?
Least Squares
Length Bias?
Life Table?
Likelihood Function?
Likert Scale?
Linear Regression
Logistic Model?
Linearity Assumption?
Logistic Regression?
Lost to Follow-Up?

M

Mann-Whitney Test?
Mantel-Haenszel Estimate, Mantel-Haenszel Odds Ratio?
Markov Process?
Matching?
Maximum Liklihood Estimate?
Mean Arithmetic
Measure of Association?
Measurement Bias?
Measurement Scale?
Measure of Central Tendency?
Median Term?
Meta Analysis
Minimal Risk
Minimum Data Set?
Misclassification?
Mode?
Model Numbers
Moderator Variable?
Monte Carlo Study, Trial?
Moving Averages?
Multicollinearity?
Multiple Comparison Techniques?
Multiple Regression Techniques?
Multiplicative Model?
Multivariate Analysis?
Multivariable Models?
"Multivariate" vs "Multivariable"?

N

Nearest Neighbor Method?
Negative Results or Conclusions?
Numeric Variable?
Noise (in Data)?
No Observed Effect Level?
Normal Distribution?
Null Hypothesis?

O

Observational Study?
Observer Variation (Error)?
Odds Ratio
Omnibus Test?
One-Tail Test?
Outcomes?
Outliers?
Overadjustment?
Outcome for Logistic Regression
Outcome Variable
Overdispersion?

P

P (Probability) Value?
Paired Samples?
Parametric Test
Path Analysis?
Person-Time?
Placebo, Placebo Effect?
Poisson Distribution?
Polynomial Model?
Positive Outcome?
Predictor Variable
Proportional Hazards Regression?
P-Values
Population Attributable Risk?
Power?
Predictive Value?
Prevalence
....Period Prevalence
....Point Prevalnce
Probability?
Proportional Hazard Model?
Publication Bias?

Q

Quadratic P-value
Qualitative Data?
Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE)?
Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) ?
Quantitative Data?
Quasi-Experiment?
"Quick and Dirty" Method?
Quota Sampling?

R

Random Allocation?
Randomized Control Trial
Ranking Scale?
Rate?
Recall Bias?
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve?
Record Linkage?
Reduction (of data)?
Reference Category?
Relative Hazard?
Register, Registry?
Regression Analysis
Relative Risk?
Replication?
Reporting Bias?
Representative Sample?
Rescaled Predictors
Residual Trash.CTSpediaConfounding?
Response Bias?
Retrospective Study?
Risk Assessment?
Risk-Benefit Analysis?
Risk Factor

S

Sample
Sample Size Determination?
Sampling Bias?
Sampling Error?
Selection Bias?
Sensitivity and Specificity?
Sequential Analysis?
Smoothing
Splines?
Standard Deviation?
Standardization?
Statistical Significance?
Stopping Rules?
Stratification?
Study Base
Survey?
Survival Analysis?
Symetrical Relationship?

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T

t-Distribution, t-Test?
Time-to-Event Analysis?
Trend?
Two-Tail Test?
Type 3 P-value

U

Unbiased Estimator?
Unit of Observation
Utility?

V

Validity Measurement?
Validity, Study?
Value Column
Variable Column
Variance?

WXYZ

Weighted Average?
Workup Bias?
Z-Score?

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-2 log Likelihood (-2 log L)