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Which type of research study is most appropriate to determine if premedication with diphenhydramine is more effective than acetaminophen to reduce the incidence of aseptic meningitis after intravenous globulin infusion?


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Central Tendency

A measure that identifies the center of a data set, or where the bulk of the values lie, including mean, median, and mode.

Statistic

A statistic is a single measure, reported as a number, used to summarize a sample and to estimate the corresponding value in the larger population from which the sample was drawn.

Parameter

A parameter is a numerical characteristic of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation, as opposed to a statistic of a sample.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data.

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