Asymmetric War Is

question 44

Multiple Choice

Asymmetric war is

• A) Unconventional tactics used by a combatant against an enemy with superior conventional military capabilities.

• B) anxiety about the United States' shift toward unilateralism in foreign policy.
• C) anti-Americanism in the war on terrorism.
• D) used increasingly by U.S. troops in Iraq.
• E) an important component to the preemptive theory of foreign policy.

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Definitions:

Consistent Estimator

A statistical property of an estimator indicating that as the sample size grows, the estimator converges in probability to the parameter being estimated.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Population Mean

The average of a set of characteristics (numeric values) in a population; a parameter that describes the central location of the data.

Sample Mean

The average of all data points in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.