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1. What is the vertical axis on a graph called? What is the horizontal axis called? What does an axis measure?

2. What is showing data on a graph called?

3. What does n stand for?

4. What is missing from this graph?

5. Name two types of average.

6. What kind of distributions do these two 'data shapes' show?

7. What kind of average would you use for data with (1) even distribution (2) uneven distribution? How would you show variation in the range of results for each of these?

8. Describe what happens to a drug when it is absorbed into the body.

9. Explain the terms used on this graph: Cmax, Area Under the Curve, Tmax and T½.

10. What does Cmin stand for?

11. What is the effect on drug levels of taking each dose of a drug on time?

12. Why is it important to keep drug levels in the body without these being too low or too high?

13. What is it important to remember about drug levels in individual people?

14. Explain what these units stand for and what are they typically used to measure in HIV infection:

• mm³
• mL
• log₁₀
• %

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