Community Dent Flashcards
Measure of central tendency that fluctuates least from sample to sample
Mean
Mean or Arythmetic average
Most common
Sensitive to extreme scores
Insensitive to extreme scores
Median
Most frequent occruring value
Ease if computation
Quick indicator of central value in distribution
Mode
How far one value is from another
Measures of dispersion or variation
Easy to calculate and unstable
Range
How far the data is clustered around the mean
Possible zero variance
Coefficient of variation
Tells you how spread out the numbera are in a sample
Standard deviation
Census
Every 10 years
Non probability sampling
Quota Purposive Snowball or Chain referred Convenience Judgment
General composition is decided in advanced and includes a particular segment of population
Quota
A researcher has a specific group in mind
Purposive
Asking participants to suggest someone for study
Hard to track
Snowball
Taking what you can get
Convenience
Selection is based on the judgment of researcher
Judgment
When population is
Small
Homogenous
Readily available
Simple random
When population is
Large
Homogenous
Scattered
Systematic
Less cost, less laborious, more purposeful
TB test, covid test
Multiphase sampling
Employed in large countries
Country-wide survey
Multistage sampling
The information is divided into definite qualitative basis
Nominal
Rank order relation
Ordinal
Father of health statistics
John Graunt
Single data
Bar diagram
Plots different types of data
Quantitative data of continuous type
Histogram