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Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Laboratory Experiment No. 2
INTRO TO BIOSTATISTICS AND DATA PRESENTATION
1. Explain the importance of biostatistics in the following fields and cite specific applications.
a. COVID-19 pandemic response (5 pts)
b. Medical Technology (5 pts)
2. Select a medical technology-related research article involving at least 5 variables and complete
the table. (10 pts)
Title of the article:
Link:
Date published:
Type of Data Provided Continuity of Value
Variable in the article Scale of
(Qualitative or (Discrete or
Measurement
Quantitative) Continuous)
3. In 2020, the attitude of 1625 college students towards e-books was investigated in a survey.
Students were asked to indicate their level of agreement with the statement: “I would like to be
able to get all my textbooks in digital form.” The following year, a similar survey was conducted
involving 1588 participants. The responses are summarized in the tables below.
Table 1. Attitudes of college students towards e-books (2020)
Response Percentage
Strongly disagree 21.3
Disagree 29.2
Agree 25.0
Strongly agree 13.2
Don’t know 11.3
Table 2. Attitudes of college students towards e-books (2021)
Response Percentage
Strongly disagree 19.1
Disagree 27.5
Agree 26.3
Strongly agree 16.0
Don’t know 11.1
a. Construct an appropriate graphical display to summarize the information given in table 1. (5
pts)
b. Use data in tables 1 and 2 to construct an appropriate graphical display with the objective of
comparing the distribution of responses in 2020 and 2021. (5 pts)
c. Based on your graph from Part (b), do you think there was much of a change in attitude toward
e-books from 2020 to 2021? Explain. (2 pts)
4. Table 3 summarizes the number of laboratory tests per hospital department over a period of five
months at AMCM Hospital.
Table 3. No. of Laboratory Tests per Hospital Department, January-May 2021, AUPMC
Hospital
Month
Department January February March April May
Internal 3,098 2,890 3,126 2,987 3,446
Medicine
Obstetrics & 2,145 2,234 2,143 2,345 2,632
Gynecology
Emergency 2234 2,675 2,167 2,765 3,630
Medicine
Pediatrics 2,212 2,210 2,232 2,567 2,255
Surgery 2,865 2,743 2,587 2,564 2,232
a. Construct an appropriate graphical display for the number of laboratory tests in the
Department of Pediatrics. (5 pts)
b. Construct an appropriate graphical display that shows trend over time for the five departments.
Graph each on the same set of axes, using different colors to distinguish the different
departments. Label accordingly. (5 pts)
c. Write a few sentences about your output from Part (b). Comment on any trend over time and
discuss the similarities and differences for the five departments. (2 pts)
5. A blood sample was drawn from 50 smokers between the ages of 45 and 65 and the serum
cholesterol level was recorded. The values are as follows:
291 260 251 238 229 179 231 177 217 205
285 260 248 235 227 158 230 165 214 199
273 256 247 234 222 233 227 221 198 212
270 254 243 233 240 238 226 221 188 209
268 252 241 240 239 238 223 219 185 207
a. Construct a frequency distribution for the given data. 10 scores must be grouped in each
interval. (10 pts)
b. Present data from Part (a) using an appropriate graphical display. (5 pts)
REFERENCES: (1 pt)
