What Term Describes When Participants Drop Out of a Longitudinal

question 85

Multiple Choice

What term describes when participants drop out of a longitudinal study?

• A)selective survival
• B)attrition
• C)cohort effect
• D)selective sampling

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that allows one to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data from that population.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical techniques used to describe and summarize the basic features of data, offering simple summaries about the sample and the measures.

Statistical Hypotheses

Formal statements made about the expected relationship between variables within the context of statistical analysis.

Frequency Distributions

A summary table or graph that shows how frequently different values occur in a dataset, often organized in ascending order.