Identify the Primary Causes of Food-Borne Illness in the United

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Essay

Identify the primary causes of food-borne illness in the United States and why some individuals are more susceptible to toxicity from food than others.How can people reduce the risk of food-borne illness?

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Definitions:

Average

A statistical measure that determines the central tendency of a set of numbers by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of the numbers.

Outliers

Those scores in a distribution that are noticeably much more extreme than the majority of scores. Whether a score is an outlier or not is usually an arbitrary decision made by the researcher.

Percentile

A measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Very High

A term often used in statistics and research to describe data points or values that are significantly above the average or expected range.