Basic Statistics

Appendix B

Answers to Selected Problems

Chapter 1

1.1 No answer.

1.2 No answer.

1.3 No answer.

1.4 (a) High incidence rate-prospective study; (b) high prevalence-survey; (c) high

funding-prospective study; (d) treatment under control of investigator-clinical

trial.

1.5 Chronic diseases.

1.6 Since surgeons perform operations that often result in physical changes to the

skin or function of the body, it may be obvious to another surgeon who examines

the patient what surgery has been done.

1.7 Casekontrol study.

Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences, Fourth Edition.

By Olive Jean Dunn and Virginia A. Clark

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