Explain This Statement: "We Are Not Sure Whether Academic Difficulties

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Essay

Explain this statement: "We are not sure whether academic difficulties of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are a result of the disorder or a result of the symptoms of the disorder."

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Definitions:

Posterior Probability

The probability of an event or hypothesis after taking into consideration new evidence or information.

Prior Probabilities

The probabilities that are assigned to events or hypotheses before any relevant evidence is taken into account, used in Bayesian analysis.

Likelihood Probabilities

Measures of how probable different outcomes are, given a specific set of observed data, in statistical analysis.

Joint Probabilities

The likelihood of two or more events happening at the same time.