OMbook_glossary

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Autocorrelation

To some extent it's what it says: how much something correlates with itself but what...

Abstracteeism

A neologism created by Branca Sa Pires and leapt upon by me in one of...

Attenuation (by unreliability of measurement)

This is the very basic reality that if you have unreliable measures of things, and...

Accuracy

What it means in everyday language really. It's one of two parts of observational...

Average absolute deviation (AAD)

This is generally used to describe a family of measures of dispersion, i.e. of the...

Alpha

First letter of the Greek alphabet. OK, OK, I know you knew that! It...

Anderson-Darling test

A good test of distribution fit. (That's a graphic from my Rblog post about...

Alternative (alternate) hypothesis

The logical alternative to the null hypothesis in NHST (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing). At...

Attrition

Technical term used in research that involves repeated assessments including the whole field of repeated...

Anonymisation

This sounds obvious doesn't it and it also seems obvious that clients, and research participants,...

Authenticity Scale (AS)

A twelve item self-report therapy change scale created to reflect Carl Rogers' ideas of authenticity...

Age

We all know what age is so why put it here?! Because it's a...

Audit, Clinical Audit

In financial terms an Audit refers to a formal inspection of a system or set...

Aggregation

Aggregation in OM refers to the bringing together of data for the purposes of statistical...