A researcher is interested in studying how the number of books parents read to their children can influence a child's reading skills in kindergarten. She randomly assigns families with 5 year old children to either read their child 3 books per day, 2 book per day, or 1 book per day for the first 2 months of kindergarten. They then measure the children's reading ability. What is the independent variable?

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Types of Bias

Statistics is the study of data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Statistical bias is a characteristic of a statistical technique or its findings in which the expected value deviates from the actual root quantitative parameter being estimated. According to the actual definition of bias, it refers to the tendency of a statistic to overestimate or underestimate a parameter.