A Study That Uses Information on Current Health Status,personal Characteristics,and

question 17

Multiple Choice

A study that uses information on current health status,personal characteristics,and potential risk factors or exposures all at once is called:

• A) cross-sectional.
• B) ecological.
• C) case-control.
• D) cohort.

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Definitions:

Skewed Negatively

A description of a distribution of data where the majority of values are concentrated on the right of the mean, leading to a longer tail on the left side.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

Values

Quantitative or qualitative measurements, attributes, or properties of variables or items.

Class Intervals

Ranges of values within which data points are grouped for frequency distribution purposes.