In Recent Years, the Increasing Trend Has Been to _________

question 78

Multiple Choice

In recent years, the increasing trend has been to _________ people with severe mental illness rather than to ______________.

• A)incarcerate; provide treatment.
• B)provide treatment; incarcerate.
• C)diagnose; stigmatize.
• D)raise funds for; keep them in long-term care.

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical data in which the categories have a natural order or ranking, but the intervals between the categories are not necessarily equal.

Wilcoxon Signed Rank

A nonparametric statistical test used to compare two related samples, matched samples, or repeated measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean ranks differ.

Normal Approximation

A method used to approximate the distribution of various statistics to a normal distribution under certain conditions, particularly useful for large sample sizes.

Nonparametric Test

Statistical tests that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, often used when data doesn’t fit normal distributions.