Examlex

Solved

A 30-Year-Old Woman Fractured Her Leg, and a Few Days

question 9

Multiple Choice

A 30-year-old woman fractured her leg, and a few days later developed a diffuse petechial rash in the nondependent areas of the body. She was short of breath and had minor neurologic symptoms. Laboratory studies showed thrombocytopenia. These findings are most consistent with


Definitions:

Skewed

A description of data that are not symmetrically distributed around the mean, often indicating a longer tail on one side of the distribution.

Parameter

In statistical analysis, a parameter is a quantity that characterizes a certain aspect of a population or a model.

Statistic

A number that describes a characteristic of a sample, derived from the data that the sample contains.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset.

Related Questions