Which of the Following Statements Is True Concerning Dental Caries

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true concerning dental caries experience among children in the United States at this time?

• A)Caries experience is evenly distributed throughout the childhood population.
• B)Most tooth decay is experienced by only a few children.
• C)There is a normal distribution of caries experience in the United States,with the majority clustered around the mean.
• D)There is a bimodal distribution of caries experience in the United States.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of dispersion in a dataset, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the mean, used to measure the dispersion or spread of a set of data points.

Dispersion

Measures the spread of a set of data points around their mean or median value.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that represents the dispersion or spread of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.