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Jun 6, 2026

75. A critical situational decision needs to be made about whether to release a new drug to market based on clinical trial results. If the trial had low statistical power, what is the urgency for a biostatistician’s caution?

A. To immediately recommend approval.
B. To caution that a non-significant result might be due to low power (Type II error) rather than true ineffectiveness, necessitating further investigation.
C. To ignore the power and focus on the p-value.
D. To recommend disapproval regardless of findings.
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

72. What technical term describes a measure of the average squared deviation of data points from the mean?

A. Standard deviation.
B. Range.
C. Variance.
D. Interquartile range.
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
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nmdcat.online BS Nursing
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66. A medicinal study needs to detect a small but clinically meaningful difference between two treatments. What critical implication does this have for the statistical power of the study?

A. High power is not necessary.
B. High statistical power (e.g., 80% or 90%) is critically needed.
C. The power should be as low as possible.
D. Power is only relevant for large differences.
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

64. What technical distribution is characterized by a bell-shaped curve and is symmetric around its mean?

A. Binomial distribution.
B. Poisson distribution.
C. Normal distribution.
D. Uniform distribution.
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

62. A medicinal study reports a 95% confidence interval for the mean increase in a biomarker as (?0.5,2.0). What is the critical interpretation?

A. The drug definitely increases the biomarker.
B. The drug definitely decreases the biomarker.
C. The confidence interval includes zero, suggesting no statistically significant effect of the drug on the biomarker.
D. The drug is highly effective.
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

59. What technical concept allows us to use sample statistics to make inferences about population parameters?

A. Descriptive statistics.
B. Probability.
C. Inferential statistics.
D. Data visualization.
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