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While Assessing the Motor Strength in a Client with a Spinal

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While assessing the motor strength in a client with a spinal cord injury, the nurse finds that the movements of the client are active against gravity. Which score should the nurse record?


Definitions:

Type II Error

The failure to reject a false null hypothesis or a false negative in hypothesis testing.

Significance Level

The significance level, denoted by alpha, is the threshold chosen by researchers below which a p-value must fall for results to be considered statistically significant.

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that asserts there is no effect or no difference, and any observed deviation from this hypothesis is due to random variation.

Type II Error

A statistical error occurring when the null hypothesis is not rejected when it actually is false.

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