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1.
Which of the following is true about an observational prospective cohort
study being designed to study the association between cigarette smoking
(smoking ≥ 1 pack of cigarettes per day, smoking < 1 pack of cigarettes
per day, or no smoking) , to be assessed on 3/1/14, and catching a cold
between 3/2/14 and 3/31/14?
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2.
Which of the following statements de nes the 60th percentile value for a
data sample?
The value such that 40% of the sample observations are larger
than this value, and 60% of the sample observations are
smaller than this value.
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3.
Which of the following sample statistics is least sensitive to the in uence
of outliers for a sample continuous data measures?
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4.
You will need the following information to answer questions 4
through 8.
This graph shows the payment amounts (in thousands of US$ ) for a
random sample of 400 US physicians who received payments from any
of 8 major pharmaceutical companies in 2011. The vertical axis
represents the percent of physicians. (Source: Propublica “Dollars for
Docs” Online Database)
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The majority of physicians received relatively “large” payments
(>$25,000) and a smaller percentage received payments less
than this majority.
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5.
Refer to the data in Question 4. Given the distributions of the sample
data, what is the most likely distribution of the payment data in the
population of all US physicians in 2011?
normal
uniform
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6.
Refer to the data in Question 4. Which of the following boxplots (shown
below the answer choices) corresponds to the physician payment
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distribution in thisThrough
sample? Lecture 3)
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7.
Refer to the data in Question 4. Suppose another researcher takes a
random sample of 1000 subjects from the same population (US
physicians who received payments from any of 8 major pharmaceutical
companies in 2011). You have not yet seen these data. Likely, how will
the sample standard deviation of these 1000 values ([Math Processing
Error]) compare to the sample standard deviation of individual physician
payments in the sample of 400 ([Math Processing Error] = 17 )
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8.
Refer to the data in Question 4. Using the data from the sample of 400
physicians, estimate the percentage of US physicians who received
payments of greater than $10,000 in 2011. This estimate percentage is :
25%
50%
75%
90%
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9.
You will need to use the following information to answer questions
9 through 12.
Quiz 1 (Covers Material Through Lecture 3)
Achondroplasia, a skeletal dysplasia , causes the condition known as
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dwar sm, in which subjects have smaller stature (height) than persons
without the condition. The following results are based on a sample of
292 newborns diagnosed with achondroplasia. The boxplot and
summary statistics below give characteristics of the birthweight
distributions separately for the male and female newborns.
The mean di erence estimated from the larger study will likely
be smaller than 0.1 kg.
The mean di erence estimated from the larger study will likely
be larger than 0.1 kg.
The mean di erence estimated from the larger study will likely
be similar in value to 0.1 kg, but there is no way to predict
exactly how the two estimated mean di erences will compare.
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11.
Refer to the data in Question 9. Based on these results, you decide that it
is reasonable to assume that these data came from populations with
(approximately) normally distributed weight values. Using the
information given and your assumption, estimate an interval containing
the “middle 95%” of weight values in the population of newborn males
with achondroplasia.
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