What Is a Food Desert and How Does It Exemplify

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Essay

What is a food desert and how does it exemplify the main point of this chapter: that health and illness are socially constructed?

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Definitions:

Resamples

The process of drawing repeated samples from a set of observed data, typically for the purpose of making statistical inferences or estimates.

Bootstrap

A statistical method that involves resampling a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used in assessing variability.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of numbers in the set.

Bootstrap Estimates

Bootstrap estimates refer to statistical estimates obtained by repeatedly sampling, with replacement, from a data set to assess the distribution of an estimator.