The Gestational Age of a Newborn Has Been Evaluated to Be

question 1

Multiple Choice

The gestational age of a newborn has been evaluated to be 34 weeks. The newborn's birth weight is greater than the 90th percentile. How should the therapist classify this infant?

• A) Small for gestational age
• B) Average for gestational age
• C) Large for gestational age
• D) Very large for gestational age

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Proportion

The fraction or percentage that represents a part of a whole or any number of items in relation to the total.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the statistics of observed data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.