Let's Assume You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine the Effect

question 51

Multiple Choice

Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The 150 epileptics constitute _________.

• A) the dependent variable
• B) a parameter
• C) a statistic
• D) the independent variable

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Definitions:

False Alarms

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Alarm Fatigue

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Continuous Cardiac Monitoring

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Pulse Oximetry

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