The Centers for Disease Control Determined That Almost 45 Percent

question 16

True/False

The Centers for Disease Control determined that almost 45 percent of adults and 29% of children in the United States are either overweight or obese.

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Definitions:

z

A standard score indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean in a normal distribution.

Standard Normal Random Variable

A random variable that is normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

P

Often used as shorthand for the p-value in statistical contexts, indicating the probability of observing certain results given a null hypothesis.

z

In statistics, 'z' often stands for the z-score, a measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.