SNHP 6000 Final Exam Study Guide

The final exam will cover material from the midterm until now. The final exam will not cover any material from the first half of the course. The exam will
consist of multiple choice, true/false, matching, and short answer/essay questions (total of 150 points and 49 questions). This study guide is not a
comprehensive list of topics that will be covered on the exam; it is only intended to be a guide. The questions will cover material from the book, SPSS
video tutor manual, PowerPoint lectures, and audio recordings. The exam will not contain any SPSS specific information, but the exam will cover
information on statistical tests, and will take information from SPSS video tutor manual.

1. Close-ended vs. open-ended survey questions

2. Likert Scale Questions
3. Source of biases from interviews and surveys
4. Problems with survey questions and examples of problematic survey questions
5. Characteristics of well-trained interviewers (Figure 19-4)
6. Anthropometric measures
7. Validity and Reliability
8. Goals of ethics review boards
9. Components of Research/Grant Proposals (Figure 25-1)
10. Comparative statistics vs. descriptive statistics
11. Null hypothesis vs. alternative hypothesis
12. p-value definition
13. 95% confidence intervals for measures of association (what is statistically significant vs.
what is not statistically significant)
14. Examples of parametric vs. non-parametric tests
15. Statistical tests and scenarios when to conduct specific statistical tests
16. Information requested by Ethics Review Committees (Figure 24-1)
17. Expedited vs. full review (IRB)
18. difference between linear regression (continuous variable) and logistic regression
(dichotomous/binary variable)
19. Other types of additional assessments
20. Regression analyses

Quiz 6 7 8
Chapter 28- Comparative Statistics
Video 6a- One Sample T-Test
Video 6b-independent Samples T-Test
Video 6c- Dependent (Paired)Samples T-Test
Video 6d-One-Way ANOVA
Video 6f- Repeated Measures ANOVA
Video 7a- Bivariate Correlation
Video 7c- Multiple Regression
Video 7d-Logistic Regression
Video 8b-Chi-square Test for Independence
Video 8c- Mann-Whitney Test & Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
Video 8d- Kruskal Wallis Test
Video 8g- Friedman’s ANOVA

Chapter 29- Regression Analysis

Chapter 18- Questionnaire Development

Chapter 19- Surveys and Interviews

Chapter 20- Additional Assessments

Chapter 24- Ethical Review and Approval

Chapter 25- Writing Grant Proposals