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END OF FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

DEPARTMENT NURSING
COURSE BIOSTATISTICS
LECTURER CHELSEA KUNBID-GAMVAH PASIAH
LEVEL 300
DURATION 2 hours
Instructions: students are expected to answer ALL Questions; any unanswered question
will not be allocated a mark.

SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (1MARK PER QUESTION, TOTAL =

10MARKS)

Use the following letters where appropriate.

NB at least two letters should be used per question.

A. Quantitative variables B. Qualitative Variables C. Ordinal Variables

D. Nominal Variables E. Discret Variables F. Continuos Variables

1. Academic grades (A, B, C, D, E)

2. Number of deaths in a hospital

3. Religion status of a person (Christian, Muslim)

4. Birth Weight of an infant

5. Clothing size (S, M, L, XL)

 6. Stages of cancer (I, II, III OR IV)

7. Head circumference of a new born

8. Number of students in class

9. Gender (Male, Female and Trans-gender)

10. Level of education (Elementary, Secondary and University)

SECTION B: STRUCTURAL QUESTIONS (40 MARKS)

1. Consider the following grouped data on the amount of time (in hours) that 80 College
Students devoted to leisure activities during a typical school week:

TIME (HOURS) MID-POINT (X) NO. OF STUDENTS

(FREQUENCY)
10-14 12 8
15-19 17 28
20-24 22 27
25-29 27 12
30-34 32 4
35-39 37 1
TOTAL 80

A. Compute the Cumulative frequency and plot it against the mid-point to produce an ogive
curve.
(7 marks)
B. Compute the Relative frequency and plot it against the mid-point to produce a frequency
polygon. (11 marks)

C. Compute the arithmetic mean. Where Ⴟ= ∑ FX i ( 4 marks)

n
D. Compute the median. Median = L + (n/2-cf) h (5 marks)
f
where
L = lower limit of median class,
n = number of observations,
cf = cumulative frequency of class preceding the median class,
f = frequency of median class
h = class size (assuming class size to be equal)

(
E. Compute the mode. Mode = L + f1-f0 / 2f1-fo-f2 h ) (5 marks)

F. Compute the variance. Variance = ∑ F (X - Ⴟ)

i
2
(6 marks)
n

G. Compute the Standard deviation (2 marks)

SECTION 3: SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)
1. Define the following

a. Biostatistics (2 marks)
b. Population (2 marks)
c. Sample (2 marks)
2. Draw the normal distribution curve for:
a. A Positively skewed distribution. (3 marks)
b. A Negatively skewed distribution. (3
marks)
c. A Symmetrical distribution (neither positive nor negative). (3 marks)
3. Why is the mean not suitable measure of central tendency? (2 marks)
4. Differentiate between an independent and a dependent variable. (3 marks)