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National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS)

A public health surveillance system for tracking and monitoring the prevalence of AMR in the US over time.

negative correlation

The type of correlation in which, as the values of one variable increase, the values of the other variable decrease.

nominal data

Categorical data that is unordered, that is, the meaning does not change if the categories are re-ordered. Examples include gender and cattle breed.

normal distribution

A symmetrical data distribution in which the mean, median and mode are equal; informally known as a ‘bell curve’. 

numeric

Data that can be represented as counts or measurements.

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