Mrcpsych Mentor Statistics Part 1 Exam
Questions & Answers 2024
Reporting Guideline: CONSORT - ANSWER-Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
Reporting Guideline: TREND - ANSWER-Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-Randomised
Designs
Reporting Guideline: QUORUM - ANSWER-Quality of Reporting of Meta-Analyses
Used to examine heterogeneity in a meta-analysis often as a supplement to a forest plot - ANSWER-
Galbraith Plot (aka Radial Plot)
Reporting Guideline: PRISMA - ANSWER-Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-
Analyses
Reporting Guideline: MOOSE - ANSWER-Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiological
Studies
Reporting Guideline: STROBE - ANSWER-Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in
Epidemiology
Reporting Guideline: SQUIRE - ANSWER-Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence
Reporting Guideline: STARD - ANSWER-STandards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy
Reporting Guideline: MIAME - ANSWER-Minimum information about a microarray experiment
Reporting Guideline: COREQ - ANSWER-Consolidated criteria for reporting Qualitative research
, Graphical representation of sample min, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and sample max -
ANSWER-Box and Whisker Plot
Used to demonstrate existence of publication bias in meta analyses - ANSWER-Funnel plot
Graphical display of continuous data where the values have been categorised - ANSWER-Histogram
Strength of evidence of constituent trials in meta analyses depicted by - ANSWER-Forest plot aka
'blobbogram'
Graphical representation using Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data -
ANSWER-Scatter plot
Graphical representation of survival function showing decreasing survival over time - ANSWER-Kaplan-
Meier Survival Plot
GRADE approach used for - ANSWER-Assessing the quality of evidence
Statistical test to demonstrate significant differences between the means of several groups (assuming
variables are normally distributed) - ANSWER-ANOVA
Define opportunity cost - ANSWER-The value of the next best alternative that is forgone when a choice is
made
The probability of accepting the false null hypothesis - ANSWER-Type 2 error
The probability that the false null hypothesis will be rejected - ANSWER-Power
The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it's true - ANSWER-Type one error
Questions & Answers 2024
Reporting Guideline: CONSORT - ANSWER-Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
Reporting Guideline: TREND - ANSWER-Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-Randomised
Designs
Reporting Guideline: QUORUM - ANSWER-Quality of Reporting of Meta-Analyses
Used to examine heterogeneity in a meta-analysis often as a supplement to a forest plot - ANSWER-
Galbraith Plot (aka Radial Plot)
Reporting Guideline: PRISMA - ANSWER-Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-
Analyses
Reporting Guideline: MOOSE - ANSWER-Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiological
Studies
Reporting Guideline: STROBE - ANSWER-Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in
Epidemiology
Reporting Guideline: SQUIRE - ANSWER-Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence
Reporting Guideline: STARD - ANSWER-STandards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy
Reporting Guideline: MIAME - ANSWER-Minimum information about a microarray experiment
Reporting Guideline: COREQ - ANSWER-Consolidated criteria for reporting Qualitative research
, Graphical representation of sample min, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and sample max -
ANSWER-Box and Whisker Plot
Used to demonstrate existence of publication bias in meta analyses - ANSWER-Funnel plot
Graphical display of continuous data where the values have been categorised - ANSWER-Histogram
Strength of evidence of constituent trials in meta analyses depicted by - ANSWER-Forest plot aka
'blobbogram'
Graphical representation using Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data -
ANSWER-Scatter plot
Graphical representation of survival function showing decreasing survival over time - ANSWER-Kaplan-
Meier Survival Plot
GRADE approach used for - ANSWER-Assessing the quality of evidence
Statistical test to demonstrate significant differences between the means of several groups (assuming
variables are normally distributed) - ANSWER-ANOVA
Define opportunity cost - ANSWER-The value of the next best alternative that is forgone when a choice is
made
The probability of accepting the false null hypothesis - ANSWER-Type 2 error
The probability that the false null hypothesis will be rejected - ANSWER-Power
The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it's true - ANSWER-Type one error
