The Concept of ____ Explains Why Children of Parents Who

question 31

Multiple Choice

The concept of ____ explains why children of parents who are at the extreme ends of a normal (bell-curve) distribution for a phenotype are usually closer to the population average for the phenotype.

• A) correlation coefficient
• B) regression to the mean
• C) multifactorial differences
• D) concordance
• E) epigenetics

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average value obtained from a sample, calculated by summing all observations and dividing by the number of observations.

Resamples

In statistics, the process of generating a new sample from an original dataset by methods such as bootstrapping or jackknifing.

Distinct Resamples

Unique subsets of data selected from a larger dataset, often used in bootstrap and other resampling techniques to estimate statistical precision.

Likely

A term indicating that something has a high probability of occurring or being the case.