When Measuring Effectiveness of a Treatment, Surrogate Measures Reflect Clinical

question 5

Multiple Choice

When measuring effectiveness of a treatment, surrogate measures reflect clinical efficacy and include

• A)recurrence of the disease
• B)death
• C)bone-mass density (BMD)
• D)hip fractures
• E)scores on standard evaluative exams such as EuroQol or SF-36

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Double Quantity

A term not clearly defined but likely refers to a data type in programming used to store double-precision floating point numbers.

Variable

A symbolic name associated with a value and whose associated value can be changed.

Assignment Operator

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Equal Sign

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