A Secondary Source Refers to an Article

question 9

Multiple Choice

A secondary source refers to an article

• A) read by a researcher and cited in his/her manuscript.
• B) consulted by a researcher as background but not actually cited in his/her manuscript.
• C) discussed in another reference and the reader does not have access to the original article.
• D) that has been plagiarized from another source.

---

Definitions:

Discrete Probability Distribution

A statistical function that describes the likelihood of each possible outcome of a discrete random variable occurring.

Mean

The average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the number of values.

Discrete Random Variable

A random variable that has countable outcomes, such as the number of heads in a series of coin flips.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.