When DrBlehert and His Team Set Out to Determine the Cause

question 64

Short Answer

When Dr.Blehert and his team set out to determine the cause of death for thousands of bats,they determined that the sick and dead bats had a strange white fuzz on their noses and wings along with depleted fat reserves and damaged wing tissue.Predicting that the white fungus was associated with the illness would be acknowledging a possible ________ between the illness and the fungus.

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Definitions:

Poisson Approximation

A methodology in statistics used to approximate the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space.

Probability

The measure of likelihood that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

Random Variable

A variable whose values depend on outcomes of a random phenomenon. It can be discrete or continuous.

Standard Deviation

A metric that quantifies the spread or variation of a dataset in comparison to its average value.