Which of the Following Has NOT Been Identified as a Cause

question 107

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has NOT been identified as a cause of obesity in adolescence?

• A) Peers who are overweight
• B) Faulty regulation of metabolism
• C) Genetics
• D) Having obese parents

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Definitions:

Confidence Intervals

An interval of values, sourced from statistical analyses of a sample, that is conjectured to include the value of a mysterious population parameter.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent states under a given number of trials.

Sampling Distribution

Sampling Distribution is the probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to make inferences about a population.

Sample Proportion

The ratio of members in a sample exhibiting a certain trait to the total number of members in the sample.