A Possible Cause of Failure to Thrive in Infants Is

question 47

Multiple Choice

A possible cause of failure to thrive in infants is:

• A)too much water being added when mixing the infant formula.
• B)an ear infection.
• C)breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition.
• D)fetal undergrowth during pregnancy.

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Definitions:

Small Sample

A subset of a population used in statistical analysis that is considered to be too small to reliably indicate properties of the population.

Permutation Test

A type of non-parametric statistical significance test that involves rearranging the observations among the groups and calculating the difference in outcomes under various permutations.

Matched-Pairs Designs

An experimental design in which each subject is paired with another subject based on certain criteria, and each pair is treated differently to compare outcomes.

Bootstrap Intervals

A technique in statistics to estimate the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original data, used to approximate confidence intervals.