A Single High-Temperature Reading of an Incoming Patient at Patient

question 91

Multiple Choice

A single high-temperature reading of an incoming patient at Patient First, a 24-hour walk-in clinic in Laurel, Maryland, is one ________.

• A) piece of information
• B) piece of knowledge
• C) piece of evidence
• D) piece of data

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Definitions:

Standard Error

An estimate of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to assess the precision of sample estimates of population parameters.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, showing how the statistic varies from sample to sample.

Populations

Populations in statistical analysis refer to entire groups of individuals, events, or items which share at least one common characteristic.

Standard Error

Refers to the standard deviation of the distribution of sample means around the population mean.