You Are Asked About a Diagnosis with Which You Are

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Essay

You are asked about a diagnosis with which you are unfamiliar. Where would you start looking for information? How would you determine the validity of the information?

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistics

A branch of statistics that allows us to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data taken from that population.

Chance

The occurrence and development of events in the absence of any obvious design or intent.

Dependent Variable

In experimentation, it's the variable being tested and measured, which is expected to change under the influence of the independent variable.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where most occurrences take place in the middle of the range.