What Is One of the Main Purposes Behind a Regulatory

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Multiple Choice

What is one of the main purposes behind a regulatory body that oversees licensing among healthcare professionals?

• A) to ensure that healthcare professionals have a resource to turn to.
• B) to ensure that the public is protected when receiving health care services.
• C) to provide opportunities for healthcare professionals to network with colleagues.
• D) to maintain the standards of undergraduate psychology programs, which will be supplying applicants to accredited graduate programs.

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Definitions:

Student t

A probability distribution used in small-sample hypothesis testing and in constructing confidence intervals when the population standard deviation is unknown.

Number

An abstract concept representing a quantity or value used in counting, measuring, and calculations.

Degrees of Freedom

The amount of distinct values or measurements that can change during analysis without breaking any limitations.

Student t Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population standard deviation is unknown.