You want to design a new clinical trial, and want to know ho…

You want to design a new clinical trial, and want to know how many participants you need to recruit in order to detect a meaningful clinical difference between your intervention and a control condition. When estimating your necessary sample size, you need to consider your alpha level, the amount of power that you want to have to detect your effect, and your anticipated ________.

________ refers to the process of combining results from dif…

________ refers to the process of combining results from different researchers, studies using different methods of data collection, and studies using different data sources in order to provide a more complete understanding of the process/behavior being studied (and to confirm whether results from these divergent sources yield the same conclusions).

A study is being designed to assess use of pre-exposure prop…

A study is being designed to assess use of pre-exposure prophylaxis in men who have sex with men. The researchers decide to first recruit 5 eligible participants, and to then have these 5 participants help recruit other potentially eligible individuals from their social circles. The researchers give each of the first 5 eligible participants numbered coupons to hand out to other potentially eligible individuals, and use these coupons to track how each participant was recruited. Models are then built of the recruitment networks (based on coupons returned to researchers), and these models are used to estimate biases related to network density and homophily. This scenario best describes a __________ approach.