High-level Concepts

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High-Level Concepts

• Events
• Periods
  • Study phases
  • Protocol phases
• Sequence of events
• Study designs
• Research types
• Methods
• Stakeholders
  • Participants
  • Investigators
  • Monitors
  • Sponsors
• Populations
• Variables
  • Independent variable
  • Dependent variable (responding variable)
    • Outcome
• Digital and paper artifacts
• Protocol
• Protocol application
  • Assessments
    • Experimental assays
    • Observations
      • Physical exam
    • Interview
    • Self-assessments
  • Data analysis
    • Data partitioning
    • Data transformation
    • Data pooling
    • Data summarization
    • Reliability
    • Correlation
  • Specimen processing
    • Procurement
    • Specimen partitioning/purification
    • Specimen storage
• Measurement scale
  • Nominal
  • Ordinal
  • Interval
  • Ratio
• Participant characteristic (phenotype)