Your Friend Is the Parent of a Teenager Who Is

question 53

Essay

Your friend is the parent of a teenager who is slightly overweight and concerned that the child may become obese. Explain factors that contribute to obesity (including basal metabolic rate) as well as techniques that have been shown to help youth lose weight.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A default statement that indicates no effect or no difference, used as a starting point for statistical hypothesis testing.

Directional Hypothesis

A hypothesis that outlines the anticipated direction of the difference or relationship.

Critical Value

A threshold in a statistical test that defines the boundary for deciding whether an observed statistic is extreme enough to reject the null hypothesis.

Alpha

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.