determinants, 191

deviation, 119, 258–259

df (degrees of freedom)

calculating, 147–148

for chisquare test,

166–167, 358–359

numerator and denominator, 152

diabetes, 135–136, 236–240. See also Type II diabetes

diagnostic procedures, 183–188

diastolic blood pressure (DBP), 116–117, 123–124

dichotomous variables, 173–174, 249, 269

difference, 147–148, 163

difference table, 163

disease, 191, 193–194

dispersion, 115, 119

distribution center, 115

distributions

bimodal (twopeaked),

114–117

binomial, 36, 354–355

chisquare,

165–166, 358–359

exponential, 356

Fisher F, 152, 359–360

frequency, 47–48

leptokurtic and platykurtic, 122

normal, 13, 36, 114, 353

probability, 35–37

sampling, 38

statistical, 13

student t, 357–358

weibull, 330, 356–357

District of Columbia, 34–35

division, 20

dL (deciliter), 280

doseresponse relationship,

298

doubleblinding,

66, 97