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Errors May Occur with the Use of Data in Formulating

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Errors may occur with the use of data in formulating an appropriate nursing diagnosis. Based on what you know, which of the following represents the main source of errors in the nursing diagnosis process?


Definitions:

Variance

A measure of dispersion showing how much the data points in a set differ from the mean, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Final Average

The weighted mean of a student's academic performance across courses over a term or academic year.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the most common or popular outcome among the observed values.

Sample Variance

A metric indicating the spread or variation in a set of sample data, determined by dividing the sum of the squared differences from the mean by the total number of data points minus one.

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