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The Following Situations Illustrate Violations of Federal Antitrust Laws: Situation

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The following situations illustrate violations of federal antitrust laws: Situation A Two HMOs split a large employer group by agreeing to let one HMO market to some company employees and to let the second HMO market to different company employees. Situation B Members of a physician-hospital organization (PHO) that has significant market share jointly agreed to exclude a physician from joining the PHO solely because that physician has admitting privileges at a competing hospital. From the following answer choices, select the response that best identifies the types of violations illustrated by these situations:


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Causal Relationship

When one variable causes a change in another variable.

Explanatory Variables

Variables in a statistical model that are used to explain variations in the response variable.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Measure Of Central Tendency

A statistical concept that provides a single value as an estimate of the center of a distribution of values, commonly calculated as the mean, median, or mode.

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