Where Does the Motor Portion of the Facial Nerve (VIII)

question 86

Multiple Choice

Where does the motor portion of the facial nerve (VIII) originate?

• A) midbrain
• B) cerebral cortex
• C) tongue
• D) nuclei in the pons and medulla

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Definitions:

Bootstrapping

A statistical method that resamples a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used in assessing the precision of sample estimates.

Resamples

The practice of repeatedly drawing samples from a given dataset with the intention of estimating a population parameter.

With Replacement

Sampling with replacement is a method where each selected unit is returned to the population before the next unit is selected, allowing it to be possibly chosen more than once.

Bootstrapping Method

A resampling technique used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by sampling with replacement from the original dataset.