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... > social science subjects > health and social care > medical science > medicine > clinical medicine > medical decision making > biostatistics and clinical epidemiology > distributions: overview
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distributions: overview  

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  • In medical decision making, distribution functions are used for two main purposes. The first is to model variability in data at the individual observation level (often subjects or patients). [Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making; Distributions: Overview]

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