Genetic Analysis of a Finger Bone from Blombos Cave Revealed

question 27

True/False

Genetic analysis of a finger bone from Blombos cave revealed a previously unknown hominin.

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Definitions:

β

Often used to represent the slope coefficient in linear regression analysis, indicating the change in the dependent variable for a one-unit change in an independent variable.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that a particular event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing, which the test statistic must exceed in order to reject the null hypothesis, indicating a statistically significant result.

Degrees of Freedom

The capacity of different values or numerals that can be designated to a statistical distribution.