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The Term for Body Weight That Is 20% or More

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The term for body weight that is 20% or more above the average weight for a person of a given height is called


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Level of Significance

A criterion for judging the strength of evidence provided by the data against the null hypothesis, often denoted by alpha.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, used to assess the evidence against the null hypothesis.

Type I Error

The error that occurs in hypothesis testing when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, often referred to as a "false positive."

Population Means

The average of all measurements, values, or quantities in a complete population.

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