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Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Mr. Olson arrived in the emergency department with his 10-month-old son. Mr. Olson states he had difficulty waking his son from a nap this afternoon. Additionally, the infant was unable to hold his spoon at dinner and did not seem to be chewing correctly. You observe that the patient has a very weak cry. Mr. Olson noted that the only difference in his son’s diet was the ingestion of fresh honey on his toast at breakfast yesterday. You suspect Clostridium botulinum infection due to the ingestion of bacterial endospores.
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Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, used as a criterion for testing statistical significance.

Degrees of Freedom

The tally of individual figures or quantities which might be designated to a statistical distribution.

F-value

A value used in statistical testing to determine if the variances between two populations are significantly different, often arising in ANOVA (analysis of variance) settings.

Analysis of Variance

A statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples, to determine if at least one of the sample means significantly differs from the others.