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Pharmacy
1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.
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Test–retest reliability
Health care; Pharmacy
A measure of the degree to which an instrument or test provides a consistent measure of a characteristic on different occasions.
Internal consistency
Health care; Pharmacy
(reliability) The degree to which the items on an instrument or test are related to each other and provide a measure of a single characteristic.
Hawthorne effect
Health care; Pharmacy
A bias introduced into an observational study when the subjects know they are in a study, and it is this knowledge that affects their behavior.
Inference
Health care; Pharmacy
(statistical) The process of drawing conclusions about a population of observations from a sample of observations.
Scheffé's procedure
Health care; Pharmacy
A multiple-comparison method for comparing means following a significant F test in analysis of variance. It is the most conservative multiple-comparison method.
Wilcoxon rank sum test
Health care; Pharmacy
A nonparametric test for comparing two independent samples with ordinal data or with numerical observations that are not normally distributed.
