ceiling effect

English

Noun

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.

Further reading

• Ceiling effect (pharmacology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ceiling effect (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia