Thomas Edison Received Patents on Many of His Inventions

question 198

Multiple Choice

Thomas Edison received patents on many of his inventions. While the patents existed, his ideas were

• A)public goods and proprietary knowledge.
• B)public goods but not proprietary knowledge.
• C)private goods and proprietary knowledge.
• D)private goods but not proprietary knowledge.

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Definitions:

Resamples

The process of taking repeated samples from observed data, often used in bootstrapping and other non-parametric statistics methods to estimate a sampling distribution.

Measurements

The act or process of quantifying physical quantities, units, or dimensions.

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A statistical technique that uses resampling with replacement to estimate the confidence intervals of a parameter.

Correlation

A statistical measure that expresses the extent to which two variables change together, indicating the strength and direction of their relationship.