The ICD-9-CM Guidelines Are a Set of Rules That Have

question 29

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The ICD-9-CM guidelines are a set of rules that have been developed to accompany and complement the official conventions and instructions provided within the ICD-9-CM itself. These guidelines are based on coding sequencing instructions found in the three volumes of the ICD-9-CM, but provide additional instruction.

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Definitions:

Interval

A range of values between two points, often used in statistics to describe the confidence levels of estimations or predictions.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution where the sum of the squares of a number of independent standard normal random variables is chi-squared.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis of statistical parameters.

Randomized Block Experiment

An experimental design that groups participants into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning them to treatments, improving the experiment's accuracy by reducing variance.