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News reports from Zimbabwe indicate that a small pack of locally produced coffee beans costs approximately 1 billion Zimbabwean dollars, an amount that would have bought 60 new cars less than ten years ago in the same country. It can be surmised that Zimbabwe is experiencing extremely high levels of _____, which has spiraled out of control in the past ten years.


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Bootstrap Standard Error

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a statistic's sampling distribution, estimated using the bootstrap resampling method.

Critical Value

A threshold value in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary of the rejection region; values beyond this indicate statistical significance.

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numerical values, derived from the analysis of a sample, likely to enclose the value of an elusive population parameter.

Trimmed Mean

A trimmed mean is calculated by removing a certain percentage of the largest and smallest values from a data set, then computing the mean of the remaining data.

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