Term | Definition |
Significance | The quality of importance |
Reliability | the point to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials |
Statement | a clear expression of something in speech or writing |
Peer Review | Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field |
Validity | The quality of being logically or factually sound or cogency |
Experimental Design | Planning process of a study to meet specified objectives |
Patent | A government license conferring right or title for a period of time on excluding others from making, using or selling an invention. |
Intellectual Property | A work or invention that is the result of creativity to which one has rights and for one may apply for a patent, copyright, etc. |
Confidence Level | The probability that the value of a parameter falls within a specified range of values. |
Experiment Stations | An establishment for scientific research where experiments are carried out, studies of practical application are made,and info is distributed. |
Literature | Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. |
Hypthosesis | A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
Treatment Group | The group in an experiment that receives the treatment or experimental manipulation for an experiment. |
Scientific Method | A method of procedure that characterizes natural science since the 17th century. |
Theory | A system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
Hatch Act | An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities |
Control Group | The group in an experiment that does not receive any treatment in a experiment and remains in the same state, |
Data | Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. |
Correlated | Having a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another. |
Research | The investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. |
Problem | A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome. |
Applied | A subject or type of study put to practical use as opposed to being theoretical. |
Fact | A thing that is indisputably the case. |
T-Test | A statistical examination of two population means. |