Question | Answer |
Signifigance | 1.the extent to which a result deviates from that expected to arise simply from random variation or errors in sampling.
2.the quality of being worthy of attention; importance. |
Reliability | Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials |
Statement | an official account of facts, views, or plans |
Peer Review | valuation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field. |
Validity | the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world. |
Experimental Design | the process of planning a study to meet specified objectives. |
Patent | a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. |
Intellectual Property | a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc. |
Confidence Level | the probability that the value of a parameter falls within a specified range of values. |
Experimental Stations | n establishment for scientific research (as in agriculture) where experiments are carried out, studies of practical application are made, and information is disseminated. |
Literature | books and writings published on a particular subject. |
Hypothesis | a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
Treatment Group | item or subject that is manipulated. |
Scientific Method | a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. |
Theory | a supposition or 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 establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto. |
Control Group | identical to all other items or subjects that you are examining with the exception that it does not receive the treatment or the experimental manipulation that the treatment group receives. |
Data | facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis |
Correlated | have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another. |
Research | the systematic 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 | (of 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. A two-sample t-test examines whether two samples are different and is commonly used when the variances of two normal distributions are unknown and when an experiment uses a small sample size. |