Congenital Diseases Are Those

question 39

Multiple Choice

Congenital diseases are those

• A) that pass from patient to patient in a health care setting
• B) that arise from within the body, such as infection
• C) of parental inheritance, such as cystic fibrosis
• D) that come from outside the body, such as trauma

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Definitions:

Unit Change

A measure indicating the change in outcome associated with a one-unit change in an independent variable within a statistical model.

Stepwise Regression

A procedure in regression analysis that automatically chooses the variables to be used for prediction.

Forward Selection

A stepwise regression approach where variables are sequentially added to the linear model based on their statistical significance in explaining the outcome variable.

Backward Elimination

A method in statistical model building where all variables are included at the start and then removed one by one based on some criteria.