Which of the Following Is a Primary Function of Epidemiology

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a primary function of epidemiology?

• A) Identifying the common educational needs of people in communities
• B) Discovering new advances and treatments for disease in a population
• C) Researching individual and cultural similarities and differences among groups
• D) Studying the distribution and determinants of disease in a population

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Definitions:

Alpha (α)

In statistics, it represents the significance level, a threshold determining the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis.

Population Standard Deviation

Measures the dispersion of a set of data points in a population from its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Interval Estimate

An estimate of a population parameter that provides a range of values believed to contain the parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Population Mean

The average of a set of values, taken from the entire population of data.