All of the Following Are Features of Using Weight Measures

question 14

Multiple Choice

All of the following are features of using weight measures for the assessment of disease risk EXCEPT

• A)they are easy to administer.
• B)they are inexpensive to obtain.
• C)they reveal the location of excess body fat.
• D)they are predictive of risk of degenerative diseases.

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Definitions:

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which values of a variable or a set of variables are spread or dispersed across different levels.

Outliers

Data points that fall significantly outside the range of values of the other observations, potentially indicating a measurement error or a novel finding.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes are the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

Median

The central figure in an arranged sequence of values, splitting the collection of data into two equal parts.