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ceiling effect
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Noun
ceiling effect (plural ceiling effects)
- (pharmacology) The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
- (statistics) 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.
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Ceiling effect (pharmacology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Ceiling effect (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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