An Assessment Finding for a 55-Year-Old Patient That Alerts the Nurse

question 19

Multiple Choice

An assessment finding for a 55-year-old patient that alerts the nurse to the presence of osteoporosis is

• A) a measurable loss of height.
• B) the presence of bowed legs.
• C) the aversion to dairy products.
• D) a statement about frequent falls.

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Definitions:

Leverages

In statistics, the influence individual data points have on the regression coefficients in a linear regression model.

T-Statistic

A type of test statistic used in Student's t-test, calculated as the difference between an observed sample mean and a known population mean, divided by the standard error.

Multiple Regression

A statistical technique that uses multiple independent variables to estimate the outcome of a dependent variable.

Least-Squares Regression

A statistical method used to determine the line of best fit by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between observed and predicted values.