University of Guyana Faculty of Health Sciences School of Medicine

MED 2106 Modules 1 and 2 Tutorial 1 Data; Research design Lecturer: Dr Reeta Gobin

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Table: Distribution of age and grade of prostate cancer, at time of diagnosis, by ethnicity cancer

The table above was adapted from a published report by Underwood et al (Cancer 2005). Cancer, The objective of this study was to describe treatment trends over the period 1992 19921999 for localized/regional prostate carcinoma among white, Hispanic, and African-American men. American The table summarises some characteristics of the 142,340 men who participated in the study. 1. State the type of data represented by each variable in the table. (Note: No. of patients is not itself a variable in this instance.) What information does the table provide about on about: (a) the proportion of study participants from each ethnic group? (b) the mean age of the participants at diagnosis? participant (c) the marital status of the participants participants? Compare the standard deviations (SD) for age in the three ethnic groups. What do they tell you about the relative variability of age at diagnosis across the different oss groups? Use one other method of data presentation we discussed in the lecture to present the information about tumour grade in the different ethnic groups. Is there any groups. noticeable difference in tumour grade at diagnosis by ethnicity?

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