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Definition: The university group responsible for approving any research with humans
with respect to ethical conduct.
2. Voluntary participation
3. Informed consent
4. Anonymity
Definition: A condition in which the researcher does not know the identity of a given
participant.
Example: The researcher from Universiti Sains Malaysia does not know the
participant involved in the study.
5. Confidentiality
Definition: A condition in which only the researcher knows the identity of given study
participants.
Example: The participant of a research does not know the researchers doing the
study.
6. Debriefing
7. Plagiarism
1. Nonprobability sampling
2. Probability sampling
Definition: The general term for a sample selected in accord with probability theory,
typically involving some random-selection mechanism.
4. Snowball sampling
5. Quota sampling
Definition: A type of nonprobability sample in which units are selected into the sample
on the basis of prespecified characteristics so that the total sample will have the
same distribution of characteristics assumed to exist in the population being studied.
Example: Out of 1000 people, 300 people are selected to be the participant of a
research.
6. Convenience sampling
7. Representativeness
9. Sampling error
Definition: A number that refers to how much the characteristics of a sample probably
differ from the characteristics of the population as a whole.
Example: 50 people are labelled with even and odd numbers. Those with odd
numbers are selected to be included in the research.
Definition: A type of probability sample in which every kth unit in a list is selected for
inclusion in the sample.
Example: 200 samples are chosen with every 8th sample included in the sample
12. Stratification
Example: Popular kids and unpopular kids are chosen to be sampled with only 15 in
each group are chosen to be in the research.
Definition: A type of multistage cluster sample in which clusters are selected not with
equal probabilities but with probabilities proportionate to their sizes- as measured by
the number of units to be subsampled.
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