More Than Half of New Infectious Diseases in Humans Emerged

question 37

True/False

More than half of new infectious diseases in humans emerged due to expanded host tropism by the infectious organism.

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Definitions:

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to determine if at least one of the sample means is significantly different from the others.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, used to estimate a population parameter.

Critical Value

A point on a statistical distribution that is compared with the test statistic to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Test Statistic

A numerical value calculated from sample data, used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.