Research methodology for the Internet: external validity (generalizability)
The burgeoning use of the Internet for nursing research calls for a need to examine characteristics of electronic populations, and how they can be conceptualized relative to their physically based counterparts. The 1963 work of Campbell and Stanley, now 40 years old, is revisited in relation to exte...
| Publicado en: | Advances in Nursing Science Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 257 - 274 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Oct-Dec2003
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