If a study examining Gulf war Syndrome reports a significant odds ratio or 4 5 a

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If a study examining Gulf war Syndrome reports a significant odds ratio or 4 5 associated with exposure to depleted uranium in returning veterans you know this means Select one: a There is a significant association between being a veteran and being exposed to depleted uranium b Veterans who were not exposed to depleted uranium are 95.5% more likely to be healthy compared to those who were exposed c. The chance of getting sick after an exposure to depleted uranium is 4 5% d Veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium are more likely to have Gulf War Syndrome than those who were not A researcher should use what regression technique to examine the relationship between death before age five and the presence of phenyl, low birth weight and prematurity? Select one a Logistic regression b linear regression c. Multiple regression d Standard error of the estimate

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8. the odds ratio is>1 so there is a higher chance of contamination by gulf war disease of veterans than not getting contaminated, thus we interpret it as dthe one listed in (D)

9. we should use logistic regression as it deals with binary variables much better due to the nature of the variables we will have either yes=1 or no=0 as independent variables which is binary in nature.

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