What Variables Are Empirically Linked to African American Youth Substance

question 5

Multiple Choice

What variables are empirically linked to African American youth substance abuse?

• A)modeling variables,relationship problems,and peer pressure
• B)economic deprivation,racism,and stress
• C)acculturation stress,language barriers,and low self-esteem
• D)lack of education,the daily stress of living,and exposure to substance use

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, typically defined as the sample size minus the number of parameters estimated.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables, showing the number of observations for each combination of categories.

Qualitative Variables

Variables that express categorical data and can be described or classified by qualities rather than numerical measures.

Contingency-table Test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant association between two categorical variables.