Exam 7: Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Case Study Designs

If we were interested in testing the relationship between cigarette advertising and cigarette smoking by teenagers,a study design that would be least appropriate would be

A cohort is a group of people who

If we are interested in learning about how social and economic elites influence decision making in one city and will rely upon census data,newspaper accounts,interviews,and surveys to do this research,we are relying on the Study design.

Explain the difference between a panel study and a cohort study.

In conducting longitudinal research,a panel design has several advantages.These include

A cross-sectional research design relies on obtaining data from a cross-section of the population over several points in time.

One advantage of longitudinal study designs is being allowed to document patterns of change over time.