Poor Sleep Promotes Increased Body Weight by Triggering

question 8

Multiple Choice

Poor sleep promotes increased body weight by triggering:

• A) an increase in the hormone ghrelin and a decrease in the hormone leptin.
• B) a decrease in the hormone ghrelin and an increase in the hormone leptin.
• C) an increase in both ghrelin and leptin.
• D) a decrease in both ghrelin and leptin.

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Definitions:

Sign Test Applications

The uses of a nonparametric test that is used to evaluate the difference between the medians of two paired samples.

Normal Approximation

A method used to approximate the distribution of various sample statistics to the normal distribution under certain conditions.

Nonzero Differences

Refers to the outcomes in statistical analyses where the differences between compared measures or values are not equal to zero, indicating variability or effect.

Binomial Distribution

The binomial distribution is a probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood of obtaining a fixed number of successes in a fixed number of trials in a binary context, where there are only two possible outcomes.