A Woman Has Experienced Multiple Symptoms, Including Fatigue and Depression

question 21

Multiple Choice

A woman has experienced multiple symptoms, including fatigue and depression, for which her doctor has not been of much help. She decides to participate in a native tribal ceremony that involves the laying on of hands by a shaman. Within days of the ceremony, her symptoms have improved. This treatment method is an example of

• A) Ayurvedic medicine.
• B) Chinese medicine.
• C) osteopathic medicine.
• D) therapeutic or healing touch.

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Definitions:

Tukey's Method

A statistical test to identify outliers by comparing the spread of data sets.

Multiple Comparison Methods

Statistical procedures used to determine significant differences among group means in a dataset, where several groups are compared.

F-test

A statistical test used to compare two variances to ascertain if they come from the same population.

Randomized Block Experiment

A design of experiment in which subjects are blocked into groups to control for variability, and then randomly assigned to treatments within each block.