The Major Difference Between Locked-In Syndrome and Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome

question 158

Multiple Choice

The major difference between locked-in syndrome and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome has to do with

• A)conscious awareness.
• B)sleep/wake cycles.
• C)the area of the brain that is damaged.
• D)the prognosis for recovery.

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Error

The difference between a measured or observed value and the true value of the quantity of interest.

Normal Probability Distribution

A continuous probability distribution. Its probability density function is bell-shaped and determined by its mean m and standard deviation s.

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The measure of how spread out numbers are in a dataset, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Analysis of Variance

A statistical method used to compare means of three or more samples by analyzing variance among and between data groups to identify any statistically significant differences.