MSTAT 100 – BIOSTATISTICS QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS 2024/2025 |
VERIFIED
Statistics - ✔️✔️Science and art of dealing with variation of data to obtain reliable results and
conclusions
Statistics - ✔️✔️Science of analyzing data and drawing conclusions thereby in the face if variability and
uncertainty
to unearth the patterns - ✔️✔️Challenge for biomedical researchers
Description of patterns
Drawing conclusions
Application of Modeling Techniques - ✔️✔️3 Domains of Statistics
Biostatistics - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️Applications of Biostatistics
Descriptive, Inferential - ✔️✔️2 Branches of (Bio)statistics
Descriptive Statistics - ✔️✔️Summarizes and presents data in a form which will make them easiest to
analyze and interpret
Tabulation
Graphical presentation
Computations of averages
Measures variability - ✔️✔️How do you present or calculate data in descriptive statistics
, Roman letters - ✔️✔️Denotes summaries of sample data
Percentages or Proportions - ✔️✔️Categorical data are described in terms of ---?
Measures of Dispersion - ✔️✔️Spread of descriptive statistics is described by ---?
Central Tendency - ✔️✔️the extent to which all the data values group around a typical or central value
Inferential Statistics - ✔️✔️Methods involved to make generalization and conclusions about a target
population, based on results from a sample
Estimation of parameters
Hypothesis Testing - ✔️✔️Inclusions in Inferential Statistics
Florence Nightingale - ✔️✔️Icon of nursing; worked during 1850's Crimean War to improve the
methods of constructing mortality tables
John Snow - ✔️✔️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.
Data - ✔️✔️Raw material for statistical work; values of variable
Data - ✔️✔️Records of measurement or observations
Population - ✔️✔️This refers to a large collection of people, objects, or places
Parameter - ✔️✔️Any numerical value that describes a population
Sample - ✔️✔️A portion or a representative of a population in a research study
VERIFIED
Statistics - ✔️✔️Science and art of dealing with variation of data to obtain reliable results and
conclusions
Statistics - ✔️✔️Science of analyzing data and drawing conclusions thereby in the face if variability and
uncertainty
to unearth the patterns - ✔️✔️Challenge for biomedical researchers
Description of patterns
Drawing conclusions
Application of Modeling Techniques - ✔️✔️3 Domains of Statistics
Biostatistics - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️Applications of Biostatistics
Descriptive, Inferential - ✔️✔️2 Branches of (Bio)statistics
Descriptive Statistics - ✔️✔️Summarizes and presents data in a form which will make them easiest to
analyze and interpret
Tabulation
Graphical presentation
Computations of averages
Measures variability - ✔️✔️How do you present or calculate data in descriptive statistics
, Roman letters - ✔️✔️Denotes summaries of sample data
Percentages or Proportions - ✔️✔️Categorical data are described in terms of ---?
Measures of Dispersion - ✔️✔️Spread of descriptive statistics is described by ---?
Central Tendency - ✔️✔️the extent to which all the data values group around a typical or central value
Inferential Statistics - ✔️✔️Methods involved to make generalization and conclusions about a target
population, based on results from a sample
Estimation of parameters
Hypothesis Testing - ✔️✔️Inclusions in Inferential Statistics
Florence Nightingale - ✔️✔️Icon of nursing; worked during 1850's Crimean War to improve the
methods of constructing mortality tables
John Snow - ✔️✔️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.
Data - ✔️✔️Raw material for statistical work; values of variable
Data - ✔️✔️Records of measurement or observations
Population - ✔️✔️This refers to a large collection of people, objects, or places
Parameter - ✔️✔️Any numerical value that describes a population
Sample - ✔️✔️A portion or a representative of a population in a research study
