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Causation |
The act of making something happen |
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Confounding variables |
A variable that causes changes in both the response variable and the explanatory variable |
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Cross-sectional study |
A study which observes a group of individuals or units at a point in time |
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Observational study |
A study where the data comes from observing and recording things as they are in the world, or as they unfold over time without the investigator actively changing anything |
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Randomised block design |
An experiment in which the experimental units are grouped (blocked) by some known factor and then treatments are randomly allocated within each block |
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Response variable |
The outcome variable on which comparisons are made |
