Joshua Was Born with PKU, and Was Immediately Placed on a Special

question 60

Multiple Choice

Joshua was born with PKU, and was immediately placed on a special diet to prevent mental retardation. This is an example of

• A) biological primary prevention.
• B) biological tertiary prevention.
• C) disease prevention.
• D) reactive treatment.
• E) biological secondary prevention.

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Sample Size

The number of individual samples or observations collected in a statistical study.

Interval Estimate

An assortment of values, from sample statistics, which is envisioned to contain the value of a mysterious population parameter.

Population Mean

The average value of all elements in a complete set of a population.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population dataset.