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ceiling effect

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ceiling effect (plural ceiling effects)

  1. (pharmacology) The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
  2. (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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