Which of the Following Is NOT a Tool of Presidential

question 118

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a tool of presidential control over the executive branch bureaucracy?

• A) the power of appointment
• B) the power to influence agency budgets
• C) presidential prestige and the bully pulpit
• D) the power to set personnel policies
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution without violating any constraints.

Student T Distribution

The Student T distribution is a probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and when the population variance is unknown.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or a parameter estimation, often representing the amount of independent information available.

F Table

A table used in statistics to find critical values of the F distribution, helpful in hypothesis testing such as ANOVA.