Research question: Do participants of veteran's court programs have lower recidivism rates compared to non- participants?
1. In your proposed research project, what are your units of analysis?
2. Could you have chosen other units of analysis for the same study? (If so, what?)
3. Most studies are cross-sectional (i.e., measuring the 'cause' at a single point in time and the 'outcome' at a single point in time for each unit). Some studies are longitudinal (looking at *changes* in the cause over time, compared to *changes* in the effect over time, for each unit). Is your study cross-sectional, or longitudinal? Explain why.