A weak instrument is an instrumental variable:

A. whose distribution is non-normal.
B. that suffers from heteroscedasticity.
C. whose partial correlation with the outcome is small.
D. whose partial correlation with the (endogenous) treatment variable is small.


Answer: D

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After the guanine, what is the next nucleotide that will be added to this growing strand of RNA?

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The molecular weight of an intermediate filament is:

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McClintock's transposable genetic element hypothesis was that the unstable mutant phenotype resulted when a ________ created a mutation by its insertion into the ________ allele and led to reversion when the expression of ________ led to its

removal. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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