Hormone Secretion from the Anterior Pituitary Gland Is Controlled

question 65

Multiple Choice

Hormone secretion from the anterior pituitary gland is controlled

• A) by hormones from the hypothalamus
• B) directly by neural innervation of anterior pituitary cells
• C) by negative-feedback action of target-tissue hormones
• D) by hormones from the hypothalamus and by negative-feedback action of target-tissue hormones
• E) none of these

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Dependent Variable

A factor in a study or model that is anticipated to vary as a result of alterations in the independent variable.

Independent Variable

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A metric in statistics that evaluates the percentage of variability in the outcome variable that can be explained by the predictor variable(s).

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between data points and a model's predictions.