Measure of association or measure of the effect
Measure of association or measure of the effect
Bias and Confounding
For this submission, you will write a two-page paper identifying any bias or confounding that may be present in your research. You will include at least one scholarly reference other than your textbook.
Within your paper, include the elements identified below.
Identify and describe the measure of association or measure of the effect that you will use in your research based on your research population and research question.
Determine if confounding is present, and explain your decision.
Describe methods for controlling bias and confounding in the study design, and provide advantages and disadvantages of each.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, and include in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
This is part of the previous literature review that you helped me with before. You can use the same sources.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.