Defence University

College of Health Sciences

Biostatistics for Medicine Students: Worksheet 1

1. The following data show the number of patients in a sample of ten hospitals who
acquired an infection while hospitalized. 110, 76, 29, 38, 105, 31, 90, 85, 46 and 85.
Find the following:
a) Arithmetic mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Q1, D7 and P45
e) Variance and standard deviation
2. The following table contains the age at death in days for 78 cases of sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS, or Crib Death) occurring in King County, during 1976 – 1977.
Table 1: Age at death in days for 78 cases of sudden infant death syndrome
Age Interval (Days) Frequency
1-30 6
31-60 13
61-90 23
91-120 18
121-150 6
151-180 5
181-210 3
211-240 2
241-270 G
271-300 1
301-330 1
Answer the following questions based the information given in the above table.
a) What is the variable of interest and it’s measurement scale in the above table?
b) Find the value of G.
c) Calculate class marks, less than and more than type cumulative frequencies, relative
frequency.
d) Calculate and interpret arithmetic mean, mode, median
e) Calculate and interpret Q3, D6, D9, P34 and P89
f) Calculate variance and standard deviation