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A Researcher Is Going to Do a Longitudinal Study of Cognitive

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A researcher is going to do a longitudinal study of cognitive development in elementary school children. What problems may this researcher have that could be avoided if she were to do a cross-sectional study instead?


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Total

The complete amount or sum of parts or units in a collection.

Distribution

In logic, the act of distributing terms across the components of a categorical syllogism; in mathematics, it refers to the distributive property involving multiplication and addition.

Median

A statistic specifying the middle value of the items in a class on a quantitative variable P.

Parasites

Organisms that live on or within another organism (the host), from which they obtain nutrients at the host's expense.

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