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Article 1: Ueno, K.  (2010). Mental health differences between young adults with and without same-sex contact: A simultaneous examination of underlying mechanisms. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(4), 391-407.  

1. Identify the basic research question as stated by Ueno.
2. Find an example of a descriptive and an inferential statistic in Euno’s article.
3. How did Ueno use probability as a part of this research?

Article 2: Ramirez-Valles, J., Kuhns, L. M., Campbell, R. T., and Diaz, R. M.  (2010). Social integration and health: Community involvement, stigmatized identities, and sexual risk in Latino sexual minorities. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(1), 30-47.  

1. What type of sampling method did the authors use to determine their sample?

Article 3: Mollburn, S. and Morningstar, E.  (2009). Investigating the relationship between teenage childbearing and psychological distress using longitudinal evidence. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 50(3), 310-326.  

1. Identify the basic research question as stated by the authors.
2. Identify a dependent variable and independent variable.
3. Identify the level of measurement of each.
4. Find an example of a descriptive and an inferential statistic.
5. Describe the sampling technique used in the Mollburn et al. article.
6. What kind of sampling method did the original researchers use? Why?