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During outbreak of monkey pox recently, health statistics in City R revealed high number of
those affected among young adults who practiced MSM (men sex with men). You are invited
to provide input for the most appropriate research to be done to reduce the morbidity and
mortality due to infection.
a) Based on your background (laboratory or community or clinical), identify the most
suitable research to be done in order to reduce the morbidity and mortality due to the
infection by providing the most appropriate research question and title of the research.

b) List at least 2 (TWO) objectives of the study.

c) Identify the most appropriate study design and please explain the reason

d) For each of the objectives which are selected in Q1b, state the dependent variable/s.
(4 marks).
e) Describe how you would statistically establish the association/relationship between
practice of MSM and monkeypox infection.

f) Explain how sample size in this study should be calculated.

2. Muhammad would like to establish relationship between anemia and preterm delivery
among antenatal mother at Hospital Pengajar UPM.

Anemia was measured as qualitative data i.e. yes and no; while preterm delivery was also
measured as qualitative data i.e. yes and no. You are provided with SPSS data
(Q2_resit_sem2_2022), together with the information of sociodemographic characteristics
of the respondents.

a) Assuming this study is part of your project, please present the descriptive information of
the background of the respondents who were involved in this study. (Please do not copy
and paste SPSS data only, please describe its descriptive statistics).
b) State the most appropriate statistical test to establish the link between anemia and
preterm delivery.
c) Describe the result of the statistical test.
d) Conclude the findings.

3. A study was done to determine association between type of Covid virus strain and total
white differential count. Type of Covid strain was documented as individual type of strain while
total differential count was measured as a numerical variable. You are provided with the SPSS data
(Q3_resit_sem2_2022).

a. State the most appropriate statistical test to establish the relationship between
Covid virus strain and total white differential count.

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 b. Describe the result and conclude your findings.
c. If the differential count was not normally distributed, describe how you would
establish the relationship between type of strain and total differential white count.

4. A study was done to determine predictors for serum cholesterol among adults in Putrajaya.
Serum cholesterol as a response variable was measured in a numerical characteristic. The identified
explanatory variables were age (numerical), gender, serum fasting blood sugar, exercise and
consumption of recycled cooking oil. Age and serum fasting blood sugar were measured as
numerical variables while gender, exercise and consumption of recycled cooking oil were in
categorical groups. All numerical variables were identified as normally distributed data.

4.1) Based on the following table, interpret R and R 2

4.2) Based on the following table, comment on the collinearity diagnosis.

4.3) Describe steps how you would run collinearity diagnosis in SPSS.

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4.4) Based on table presented in Table in Q4.2; state the differences between unstandardised and
standardised coefficients.

5. A study was conducted to determine the role of labeling presentation (colorful or detailed with
information and type of package (glass or plastic jar) in the decision score to buy organic food by
elderly groups in Selangor. A factorial design was chosen, and respondents were divided into four
groups as the following:

Group 1: Buy organic food which has a colorful label in a glass jar.

Group 2: Buy organic food which has a colorful label in a plastic jar.

Group 3: Buy organic food which has a detailed label in a glass jar.

Group 4: Buy organic food which has a detailed label in a plastic jar.

You are provided the SPSS data (Q5.sav).

5.1. State the most appropriate statistical test to answer the research question related to the role of
labeling presentation and type of package in the decision score to buy the organic food.

5.2. State the null and alternative hypothesis for this study.

Proceed with the appropriate statistical analysis and discuss the main findings.

5.3 a) Provide the descriptive findings of the analysis.

5.3b) Interpret result for Levene’s Test of Equality of Error Variances.

5.3 c) State and discuss the interaction effects of this study.