The Part of the Brain Known as the _____ May

question 179

Short Answer

The part of the brain known as the _____ may develop more slowly in an infant who is frequently frightened.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic (such as the mean) computed from a sample, over repeated sampling from the same population.

Variability

The extent to which data points differ from each other and from the mean of the data set.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution that indicates the probabilities of a given statistic, which is acquired from a random sample.

T-distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.