Using Your Knowledge of the Treatments for Constipation,explain to a Patient

question 4

Multiple Choice

Using your knowledge of the treatments for constipation,explain to a patient how laxatives and cathartics stimulate defecation.

• A) Both laxatives and cathartics produce a mild, gentle stimulus for defecation.
• B) Cathartics produce a mild, gentle stimulus for defecation, whereas laxatives produce a more intense action on the bowel.
• C) Laxatives produce a mild, gentle stimulus for defecation, whereas cathartics produce a more intense action on the bowel.
• D) Both laxatives and cathartics produce a more intense action on the bowel, causing defecation.

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Definitions:

Studentized Residuals

Residuals from a regression analysis that have been standardized to have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.

R-Squared

A statistical measure that represents the portion of the variance for a dependent variable that's explained by an independent variable or variables in a regression model.

Sum of Squares

A statistical technique used to describe the total variation of a dataset by summing the squares of the differences from the mean.

F-Ratio

A statistical measure used in the analysis of variance (ANOVA), comparing the variance among group means to the variance within groups.