Dr.No sees two depressed patients with a shared subset of symptoms.One patient gets better with treatment,the other,worse.Dr.No thus decides to study the details of their therapy to determine a basis for the difference in treatment outcomes.This approach can most accurately be described as an example of which type of observational study?
A) case study
B) deviant-case analysis
C) naturalistic observation
D) Survey

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Deviant-case analysis involves studying cases with different outcomes to understand the factors leading to those differences, which is what Dr.No is doing by comparing the two patients.

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