Bahir Dar University
Group assignment for 2nd year pharmacy Students,
Submitted to Habtamu Abebe
Total attainable mark: 35%
Due date: 20-Jun- 2025,
General guidelines
Please follow all the necessary steps or procedure for each problem.
The answer must be clearly and readable.
Unreadable answers may not have points.
Cheating of answers may dismiss the result.
1. The following data shows the fasting blood sugar levels in (mg/dl) of 100 diabetic
patients under follow up at University of Gondar medical center
223 213 213 224 230
212 204 227 229 220
211 217 218 238 201
237 230 215 234 200
219 214 221 221 239
205 232 220 221 233
230 238 209 230 230
211 225 214 230 214
234 238 223 221 225
218 230 224 200 218
208 222 222 220 238
220 230 226 225 234
208 225 231 239 207
223 216 202 211 237
211 228 205 214 212
230 224 219 213 222
238 201 202 216 236
204 221 227 228 215
230 209 227 205 226
224 210 215 223 203
a) Construct a grouped frequency distribution table?
b) Calculate the mod and median from the grouped frequency distributed data.
c) Calculate variance and standard deviations of the grouped data?
2. The following table shows the lung cancer and smoking statues results for 210
individuals.
Lung cancer
Yes No
Smoker 50 100
Non-smoker 20 40
a) What is the probability that a man has lung cancer?
b) What is the probability that a man is smoker?
c) What is the probability that a man is smoker given that had Lung cancer?
d) Test that Are the events “a man has Lung cancer” and “a man is smoker” independent
or not?
3. Suppose each child born to a particular set of parents has a probability of 0.25 of having
blood type O. If these parents have 5 children. What is the probability that
a. Exactly two of them have blood type O
b. At most 2 have blood type O
c. At least 4 have blood type O
d. 2 do not have blood type O.
4. According to a report the rare form of malignant tumour, Neuroblastoma, is occurs in 10
out of one million childrens. In the 36,000 children of Addis Ababa, 10 cases of
neuroblastoma are reported. find the probability of seeing at most five cases of
neuroblastoma in a population of this size. What you conclude from this result?
5. The Study indicated that the probability of suffering a fever from the COVID-19 vaccine
is 0.005. If 1000 people are given the vaccine, so what is the probability of
a) At most 4 person suffers a fever as a result of the vaccine?
b) More than 10 people suffer a fever as a result of the vaccine?
6. A physician wants to identify the impact of body exercise on weights of diabetic patients
and he classified patients into two groups the first group was patients who do exercise
and another who do not do. Both groups will be compared based on their death rate at the
end of the study period. The physician takes the proportion of deaths on diabetic patient
as 40% from previous study and in control it can be around 30 how much the study
subjects the researcher selects for 5% of significant level and 80% power with 1:3 of
cases to controls ratio?
7. To identify the change of fasting blood sugar level of Ten (10) type-two diabetic patients
are screened at University of Gondar medical center diabetic clinic and are given a strong
antidiabetic medication for their condition. They are asked to come back 1 week later and
have their fasting blood sugar level measured again. Suppose the initial and follow-up
FBS levels of the patients are given below.
ID number Initial FBS (mg/dl) Follow-up FBS (mg/dl)
01 180 165
02 168 150
03 220 200
04 140 160
05 178 110
06 190 120
07 155 116
08 150 200
09 240 180
10 180 150
a) What is the mean and of the difference?
b) What is the standard error of the mean?
c) Assume that the difference is normally distributed; construct a 95% CI for the population
mean .
8. An investigator wants to study the prevalence of smoking in Gondar town and he selected
1000 samples randomly and collects the data, from 1000 individuals 200 of them was
smoking cigarette. Based on this information construct the 95% confidence interval for
the true proportion of smoking in the town.
9. A study was conducted to investigate the possible cause of anemia from people following
a treatment in University of Gondar medical center. Among the 220 individuals who
smokes cigarette, 110 became ill. While, among the 40 individuals who did not smoke
cigarette, 10 became ill. Is there a significant difference between the two groups at α
=5%?
