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The document contains a biostatistics exercise with 8 questions covering topics such as: - Describing variables and appropriate measures of central tendency - Comparing pre-test and post-test scores using measures like mean, median, standard deviation - Calculating relative and cumulative frequencies from data on diastolic blood pressure - Comparing crude death rates between villages of different population sizes - Calculating mean, median and mode from class quiz score data - Using information about mean rainfall to calculate rainfall on one day - Assessing the effect of a data recording error on measures of central tendency and dispersion

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Biostatistics Exercise 1

The document contains a biostatistics exercise with 8 questions covering topics such as: - Describing variables and appropriate measures of central tendency - Comparing pre-test and post-test scores using measures like mean, median, standard deviation - Calculating relative and cumulative frequencies from data on diastolic blood pressure - Comparing crude death rates between villages of different population sizes - Calculating mean, median and mode from class quiz score data - Using information about mean rainfall to calculate rainfall on one day - Assessing the effect of a data recording error on measures of central tendency and dispersion

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Biostatistics Exercise 1.

To be submitted on Friday, Nov 28, 2014

A study in a hospital showed that 30% of those who came for emergency reasons were aged 15 years or
less.

a. What is the variable of interest of the study?


b. What is the type of the variable?
c. Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for the data

1. The table below shows results (out of 50) of pre-test and post-test scores for students attending
biostatistics course using mean , median, standard deviation and inter-quartile range.

Exam type Score


Mean Median SD IQR
Pre-test 10 22 12 35
Post-test 30 35 10 20
a. What type of variable is pre-test?
b. The mean of the difference between pre and post tests is 20 (True, False)
c. The median of the difference between pre and post tests is 13 (True, False)
d. The SD of the difference between pre and post tests is -2 (True, False)
e. The IQR of the difference between pre and post is 15 (True, False)
f. Which graphical display is most appropriate to compare pre and post tests

2. What is the most appropriate graphical method to display for the following data?
a. The distribution of diarrhea in an outbreak investigation
b. The weight of newborns in a health center
c. The marital status of pregnant women attending ANC
d. Treatment failure among TB patients

3. The following table shows percentage of life styles of people by age currently compared to the
last year

Age group Percentage of current life style


No breakfast Drinking Smoking
15-64 70 40 35
65 and above 90 10 15
Say True or False
a. 70% of people aged 18-64 did not have breakfast as compared to 90% of people aged 65 and
above
b. Drinking has declined by 30% at age 65 and above.
c. 20% quit smoking at aged 65 and above
d. The data shows that as people get older they adopt more healthful life style
4. The following table shows frequency of diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of men aged 30-69 with
mean DBP of 84mmHg

DBP in mmHg Freq. Relative freq. Cumulative


freq
Below 65 60
65-74 270
75-84 540
85-94 420
95-104 150
105-115 45
Above 115 15
a. Fill the relative and cumulative relative frequency columns in the table
b. People with 95mmHg and above are considered hypertensive. What is the percentile
hypertensive?
c. The frequency for 800 women is almost similar with mean 79mmHG and same SD as that for
men. Say True or False for the following
(i) The median DBB will be the same for both sexes
(ii) The proportion of hypertensive is the same for both sexes
(iii) The variability of DBP is higher for women

5. The following table shows crude death rates (CDR) in four different villages

Village No of population CDR


A 50,000 10
B 100,000 8
C 250,000 8
D 250,000 4
a. Which of the villages has the largest number of deaths?
b. Can we say village D has a better survival compared to other villages? Justify your answer.

6. An instructor gave a quiz with 3 questions each worth one point. 30% of the class scored 3 points,
50% scored 2 points, 10% scored one point and the rest scored zero.
a. Calculate the mean, median and mode of the scores if there were 30 students in the class
b. Is it possible to find out the three measures without being told the number of students? Justify
your answer

7. The mean rainfall for one week excluding Sunday was 0.5 inch. Due to heavy rain on Sunday the
mean for the week rose to 1.5 inch. How much rainfall was on Sunday?

8. The following are life expectancies of males in six European countries: 74, 77, 73, 75, 77 and 78.
If the observed value of 74 is mistakenly recorded 740. What is the effect on each of the
following? . Mean, Median, SD, IQR

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