To Be Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness, a Child Must

question 52

Multiple Choice

 To be diagnosed with a chronic illness, a child must have the illness for ____.

• A) at least 1 month
• B) at least 3 months
• C) at least 6 months
• D) at least a year

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Definitions:

Independence

A situation in statistics where two events are not influenced by each other, and the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other.

Chi-Square Statistic

A statistical measure used to evaluate the differences between observed and expected frequencies in categorical variables.

Observed Frequencies

The number of times a particular value or event actually occurs in a dataset.

Expected Frequencies

In statistical analysis, these refer to the counts predicted by a probability model or theoretical distribution, used in the comparison of observed data for goodness-of-fit tests.