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HSCI 190 EXAMREVIEW - ALL
MODULES | 124
QUESTIONS | WITH
COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS!!
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,HSCI 190 EXAM REVIEW - ALL MODULES |
124 QUESTIONS | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS!!
What is statistics? Answer - the study of variation
What are descriptive statistics? What are some examples of descriptive
statistics? Answer - Summarizing and describing data so that patterns become
apparent
visualizations, measures of central tendency, variability
What are inferential statistics? What are some examples of inferential
statistics? Answer - analyzing data to make general conclusions about the way
the world works
SEM, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, t-tests, ANOVAs, correlations,
regressions, non-parametric tests
What is machine learning? Answer - a technique derived from statistics that
tries to learn patterns from raw data in order to make predictions
What are the three components that make up evidence-based medicine?
Answer - clinical expertise (what has been learned in the profession?), best
research evidence (what does literature say?), and patient values (what does
the patient want?)
, What is evidence-based medicine? Answer - The practice of using research-
based evidence, clinical expertise, and info about the patient's values and
preferences to make clinical decisions on patient care
Describe the study conducted by Wakefield et al. in 1998. What was it about?
What was the outcome? What effect did it have on people? Answer - The
study concluded that there was an association between the MMR vaccine and
autism spectrum disorder (even though there were many things wrong with
the research methods)
the paper became popular and it influenced people's decision to vaccinate
their children
in 2010, it got removed from the journal it was published in because many
researchers disproved the conclusions
still, today, people think that vaccines can lead to autism spectrum disorder
because of this paper
How did statisticians prove Dr. Shipman was guilty? Answer - They compared
Dr. Shipman's patients' time of death to other physicians' patients' time of
death - showed that most of Dr. Shipman's patients died at the same time
(afternoon)
What is the PPDAC cycle? Answer - the problem, plan, data, analysis,
conclusions cycle
we use it to discuss statistical concepts
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