A Better Divorce Rate Measure That Compares How Many Divorces

question 47

Multiple Choice

A better divorce rate measure that compares how many divorces occurred in a given year relative to the number of married people in that year is the

• A) crude divorce rate.
• B) refined divorce rate.
• C) federal divorce rate.
• D) divorce-marriage ratio.

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Normal Curve

Also known as the Gaussian distribution, a bell-shaped curve that is symmetric about the mean, showing the distribution of variables as naturally occurring in many processes.

Uniform Probability Density Function

A type of probability distribution in which all outcomes are equally likely, represented by a flat, constant function over its range.

Continuous Probability Distribution

A type of probability distribution where the possible outcomes are any values within certain ranges or intervals.

Discrete Probability Distribution

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