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erika

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A false positive in screening tests is the event that the test is negative for a given condition, given that the person has the condition.
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Which of the following statements is false?
 a. A contingency table is an arrangement of data in a two-way classification. The data are sorted into cells, and the number of data in each cell is reported.
  b. In the case of contingency tables, the number of degrees of freedom is exactly the same as the larger of the number of columns or rows in the table.
  c. In general, the r x c contingency table (r is the number of rows; c is the number of columns) is used to test the independence of the row factor and the column factor.
  d. None of the above.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

F

Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jul 24, 2018
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