A researcher studies grip strength in 8-year old healthy boy…
A researcher studies grip strength in 8-year old healthy boys. She believes that if she takes a large enough random sample, she will be able to have more confidence that the average grip strength in 8-year old boys is close to the mean grip strength of the population she is studying. Is she correct?
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Members of a community health task force evaluate a proposal for a new adolescent screening program. Several members of the task force raise questions as to the validity of the screening instrument. Which measure of validity examines the instrument’s ability to identify diseased persons by looking at the number of true positives compared to all those who have the disease?
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