Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health Exam Preparation Questions and Answers
What Are the Two Areas of Applied Biostatistics? Descriptive Statistics -Summarize a sample selected from a population Inferential Statistics -Make inferences about population parameters based on sample statistics. What is a statistic? What is a parameter? •Any summary measure computed on a SAMPLE is a Statistic •Any summary measure computed on a POPULATION is a Parameter T/F: N = population size. n = sample size True Label and explain the five points of a box and whisker plot. Min Q1 Median Q3 Max. Min = Q1 = First quartile holds approximately 25% of the scores at or below it Median = a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of the values, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.
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