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The document contains a series of practice questions focused on data analysis, including examples of quantitative and qualitative data, calculations of measures of central tendency, and statistical probabilities related to health studies. It also includes questions about treatment outcomes, study designs, and risk assessments in epidemiological research. The questions require the application of statistical methods and critical thinking to interpret health-related data.

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Questions For Practice

The document contains a series of practice questions focused on data analysis, including examples of quantitative and qualitative data, calculations of measures of central tendency, and statistical probabilities related to health studies. It also includes questions about treatment outcomes, study designs, and risk assessments in epidemiological research. The questions require the application of statistical methods and critical thinking to interpret health-related data.

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QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

1. Give some examples of Quantitative data? (At least 5)


2. Give some examples of Qualitative data? (At least 5)
3. Given below is a graph plotting the Body mass index (BMI) in kg per m2 for 20
employees in an organization, along with the BMI data.

14.6 24.9 27.2 28.2 29.9 31.5 32.3 33.3 34.3 38.3
24.3 27.0 27.4 28.8 30.7 31.6 32.8 33.6 36.9 44.0

a) What type of graph it represents? Label and identify the various parts of the
graph?
b) What are the measures of central tendency? Calculate.

4. Find the mean respiratory rate per minute and its SD when in 9 cases the rate was
found to be 23, 22, 20, 24, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21.

5. Mean height of 500 students is 160 cm and the SD is 5cm.


a) What are the chances of heights above 175 cm being normal, if height follows
normal distribution?
b) What percentage of students will have height above 168cm?
c) How many of the students will have heights between 168 and 175 cm?

6. If the total cholesterol values for a certain population are approximately normally
distributed. Find the probability that an individual picked at random from this
population will have a cholesterol value:
a) Between 188 and 210mg/100ml
b) Greater than 232mg/100ml
c) Less than 155mg/100ml
d) Between 199 and 221mg/100ml
µ= 210mg/100ml,
SD= 22mg/100ml

7. In Jharsuguda, a study was conducted among 7000 adolescents including 4000 boys
and 3000 girls, out of which 700 boys and 70 girls were smoking at the time of study.
840 boys and 35 girls were chewing tobacco. Present the data in percentages and
graph and comment.
8. Out of 250 diarrhoea cases with dehydration, 150 were treated with homemade fluid
and remaining 100 were treated with ORS. 30 have not recovered from each group.
Find out, is there any difference between treatment outcome of ORS and homemade
fluid.
(N.B: Chi-square value of 3.84 has a P value of 0.05)

9. An epidemiological study was conducted by taking 3000 alcoholics and 5000 non-
alcoholics. All of them were followed for 2 years. During the study period 120
alcoholics and 150 non-alcoholics developed liver cirrhosis.
a. What type of study design is this?
b. Calculate the relative risk & interpret your findings.
c. Calculate the Attributable risk and interpret your findings.
10. Researchers investigate a potential link between the Hepatitis B vaccine and the
occurrence of multiple sclerosis. They identified 100 patients who were diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis and 100 healthy individuals from clinics. The researchers query
medical records to determine the proportion of people who had previously received the
hepatitis B vaccine. The results are shown below. Measure the risk for multiple sclerosis
in vaccinated to non-vaccinated individuals.

Subjects No. who previously received hepatitis


B vaccine

100 patients with multiple sclerosis 12

100 healthy individuals 13

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