ceiling effect
ceiling effect · ceiling effects
The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller…The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
Meaning
2 sensesThe process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
The phenomenon where an independent variable no longer has an effect on a dependent variable, or the level above which variance in an independent variable is no longer measurable.
Forms
plural: ceiling effects| Singular | ceiling effect |
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Word family
2 related wordsSee also
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