A Patient Who Accidentally Takes Too Many Doses of Chloramphenicol

question 37

Multiple Choice

A patient who accidentally takes too many doses of chloramphenicol during a Salmonella sp. infection could possible come down with:

• A) aplastic anemia
• B) liver cancer
• C) gastroenteritis
• D) ulcers
• E) growth plate defects

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Bayesian Statistics

A statistical method that applies probability to statistical problems, focusing on the posterior distribution of parameters by incorporating prior knowledge.

Probability Distributions

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Expected Value

A calculated average of all possible values in a random variable, weighted by each value's probability of occurrence.

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