Soft Bones Resulting from a Deficiency of Vitamin D in Adulthood

question 11

Multiple Choice

Soft bones resulting from a deficiency of vitamin D in adulthood is known as

• A) osteopenia.
• B) osteomalacia.
• C) osteoporosis.
• D) osteopathy.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A measure of the precision or variability of a sample statistic estimate of a population parameter.

Level Of Significance

Level of significance is a threshold in hypothesis testing that determines whether the null hypothesis can be rejected, typically expressed as a probability value (e.g., 0.05).

Rejection Region

The spectrum of results causing the null hypothesis to be dismissed in hypothesis testing.

Confidence Level

The probability, expressed as a percentage, that the range of a confidence interval contains the true parameter value.