MSTAT 100 – Biostatistics UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Science and art of dealing with variation of data to
obtain reliable results and conclusions
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Science of analyzing data and drawing conclusions
thereby in the face if variability and uncertainty
to unearth the patterns - CORRECT ANSWER - Challenge for biomedical researchers
Description of patterns
Drawing conclusions
Application of Modeling Techniques - CORRECT ANSWER - 3 Domains of Statistics
Biostatistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Application of statistics to the analysis of biological
and medical data.
Problem Identification
Resource allocation of limited resources
Evaluation programs
Needs assessment
Tool in decision-making process - CORRECT ANSWER - Applications of Biostatistics
Descriptive, Inferential - CORRECT ANSWER - 2 Branches of (Bio)statistics
Descriptive Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Summarizes and presents data in a form
which will make them easiest to analyze and interpret
, Tabulation
Graphical presentation
Computations of averages
Measures variability - CORRECT ANSWER - How do you present or calculate data in
descriptive statistics
Roman letters - CORRECT ANSWER - Denotes summaries of sample data
Percentages or Proportions - CORRECT ANSWER - Categorical data are described in
terms of ---?
Measures of Dispersion - CORRECT ANSWER - Spread of descriptive statistics is
described by ---?
Central Tendency - CORRECT ANSWER - the extent to which all the data values group
around a typical or central value
Inferential Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Methods involved to make generalization
and conclusions about a target population, based on results from a sample
Estimation of parameters
Hypothesis Testing - CORRECT ANSWER - Inclusions in Inferential Statistics
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Icon of nursing; worked during 1850's
Crimean War to improve the methods of constructing mortality tables
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER - He applied simple statistical methods to support his
theory on contaminated water from a single pump that was the source of the London cholera
epidemic in 1854.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Science and art of dealing with variation of data to
obtain reliable results and conclusions
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Science of analyzing data and drawing conclusions
thereby in the face if variability and uncertainty
to unearth the patterns - CORRECT ANSWER - Challenge for biomedical researchers
Description of patterns
Drawing conclusions
Application of Modeling Techniques - CORRECT ANSWER - 3 Domains of Statistics
Biostatistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Application of statistics to the analysis of biological
and medical data.
Problem Identification
Resource allocation of limited resources
Evaluation programs
Needs assessment
Tool in decision-making process - CORRECT ANSWER - Applications of Biostatistics
Descriptive, Inferential - CORRECT ANSWER - 2 Branches of (Bio)statistics
Descriptive Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Summarizes and presents data in a form
which will make them easiest to analyze and interpret
, Tabulation
Graphical presentation
Computations of averages
Measures variability - CORRECT ANSWER - How do you present or calculate data in
descriptive statistics
Roman letters - CORRECT ANSWER - Denotes summaries of sample data
Percentages or Proportions - CORRECT ANSWER - Categorical data are described in
terms of ---?
Measures of Dispersion - CORRECT ANSWER - Spread of descriptive statistics is
described by ---?
Central Tendency - CORRECT ANSWER - the extent to which all the data values group
around a typical or central value
Inferential Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - Methods involved to make generalization
and conclusions about a target population, based on results from a sample
Estimation of parameters
Hypothesis Testing - CORRECT ANSWER - Inclusions in Inferential Statistics
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Icon of nursing; worked during 1850's
Crimean War to improve the methods of constructing mortality tables
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER - He applied simple statistical methods to support his
theory on contaminated water from a single pump that was the source of the London cholera
epidemic in 1854.
