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Intro to Biostatistics Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 primary levels (groupings) for variables?

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  • Nominal
  • Ordinal
  • Interval or Ratio
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What are the 3 attributes of data measurement that determines the groups?

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  • Order/Magnitude
  • Consistency of scale/ Equal distances
  • Rational absolute zero
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Nominal

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  • Dichotomous/Binary
  • Non-ranked
  • Named categories
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Ordinal

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  • Ordered
  • Rank-able categories
  • Non-equal distance
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Interval/Ratio

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  • Order and magnitude

- Equal distances

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6
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Which levels of measurement are known as discrete?

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  • Nominal

- Ordinal

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7
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Which level is known as continuous?

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Interval/Ratio

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After data is collected, we can appropriately go ___________ in specificity/detail of data measurement (levels) but never _________!

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Down,

Up

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Mode

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Most common

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10
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Median

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Middle when numbers are in order

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Mean

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Average

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Interquartile Range

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Range of the middle, innermost 50%

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13
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What is most useful in ordinal data?

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  • Mode

- Median

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14
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What is most useful in nominal data?

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  • Mode
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15
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What is most useful in interval?

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  • Mean

But all three can be used

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16
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Variance

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The average of the squared differences in each individual measurement and the mean.

the mean - measurement divided by the number of groups.

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Standard Deviation (SD)

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Square root of variance value

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18
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What are stats tests that are useful for normally-distributed data called?

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Parametric tests

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19
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Positively Skewed

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  • When the mean is higher than the median

- Tail pointing to the right

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Negatively skewed

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  • Mean lower than the median

- Tail pointing to the left

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Skewness

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A measure of the asymmetry of a distribution

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22
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What is the skewness value of the perfectly-normal or symmetric distribution?

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Zero

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Kurtosis

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A measure of the extent to which observations cluster around the mean

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24
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What is the kurtosis value for a normal distribution?

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Zero

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25
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Wha does a positive kurtosis mean?

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More cluster

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What does a negative kurtosis mean?

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Less cluster

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27
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What are the required assumption of Interval/Ratio data?

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  1. Normally-distributed
  2. Equal variances
  3. Randomly-derived and independent
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28
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What is the purpose of Levene’s test?

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To assess equal variance between groups

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29
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How is data that is not normally-distributed handled?

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  1. Use a statistical test that does not require the data to be normally distributed
  2. Transform data to a standardized value (z-score or log transformation)
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30
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Null Hypothesis

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Researcher perspective which states there will be no true difference between the groups being compared

31
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Type 1 Error

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  • Alpha
  • rejecting null hypothesis when it is true and should be accepted
  • claiming difference when there is none
32
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Type 2 Error

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  • Beta
  • Accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false and you should not have accepted it
  • claiming there is no difference when there is one
33
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1 SD above and below the parameters will represent ___ % of all people in the study.

34
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2 SD above and below the parameters will represent ___ % of all people in the study.

35
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3 SD above and below the parameters will represent ___ % of all people in the study.

36
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Power

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  • 1 - beta
  • the statistical ability of a study to detect a true difference if one truly exists
  • 80% by default
37
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What percentages of type 2 error is acceptable?

38
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Sample size and power

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the larger the sample size, the greater the likelihood of detecting a difference if one truly exists

increase in power

39
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What percentages of type 1 error is acceptable?

40
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If a p value is ______ than the pre-selected alpha, (0.05, 5%), then we say that it is statistically significant

41
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Interpretations of a p value

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  • the probability of making a type 1 error if the null hypothesisi is rejected
  • the probability of wrongly claiming a difference between groups when one doesn’t really exist
  • the probability of obtaining group differences as great or greater if the groups were actually the same
  • the probability of obtaining a test statistic as high/higher if the groups were actually the same/equal
42
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Confidence Intervals

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the range in which you are a certain percent confidant that the real difference lies

43
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What are the 4 key questions to select the correct statistical test?

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  • What data level is being recorded
  • What type of assessment is desired?
  • How many groups
  • Is the data independent or related
44
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What is the name for the correlation test for nominal data?

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Contingency Coefficient

45
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What is the name for the correlation test for ordinal data?

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Spearman Correlation

46
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What is the name for the correlation test for inteval data?

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Pearson Correlation

47
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What key words should you look for in a survival test?

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  • time to event

- event occurrence

48
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What is the name for the survival test for nominal data?

49
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What is the name for the survival test for ordinal data?

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Cox-proportional Hazards test

50
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What is the name for the survival test for interval data?

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Kaplan-Meier test

51
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What are the key words for a regression test?

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  • prediction
52
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What is the name for the regression test for nominal data?

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Logistic Regression

53
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What is the name for the regression test for ordinal data?

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Multinomial Logistic Regression

54
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What is the name for the regression test for interval data?

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Linear Regression

55
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What is the nominal test for independent data with 2 and 3 or more groups?

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  • Chi square

- Fisher’s exact for cells less than 5

56
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What is the post hoc test for nominal data

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bonferonni test

57
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What is the nominal test for related data with 2 groups?

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McNemar test

58
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What is the nominal test for related data with 3 or more groups?

59
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What is the ordinal test for independent data with 2 groups?

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Mann-Whitney test

60
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What is the ordinal test for independent data with 3 or more groups?

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Krusal-Wallis test

61
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What is the ordinal test for related data with 2 groups?

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Wilcoxin Signed Rank test

62
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What is the ordinal test for related data with 3 or more groups?

63
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What are the post hoc tests for ordinal data with 3 or more groups?

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  • Student-Newman-Keul test
  • Dunnett
  • Dunn
64
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What is the interval test for independent data with 2 groups?

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Student t test

65
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What is the interval test for independent data with 3 or more groups?

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  • ANOVA

- MANOVA ( 2 or more dependent variables)

66
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What is the interval test for independent data with 3 or more groups with confounders?

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  • ANCOVA

- MANCOVA

67
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What is the interval test for related data with 2 groups?

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Paired t test

68
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What is the interval test for related data with 3 or more groups?

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  • RM ANOVA

- RM MANOVA

69
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What is the interval test for related data with 3 or more groups with confounders?

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  • RM ANCOVA

- RM MANCOVA

70
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What are the post hoc tests for interval data with 3 or more groups?

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  • Student-Newman-Keul test
  • Dunnett
  • Dunn
  • Tukey or Sceffe tests
  • Bonferroni
71
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Student-Newman-Keul test

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  • compares all pairwise comparisons possible

- all groups must be equal in size

72
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Dunnett test

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  • compares all pairwise comparisons against a single control
  • all groups must be equal in size
73
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Dunn test

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  • compares all pairwise comparisons possible

- useful when all groups are not equal in size

74
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Kappa statistic

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correlation test showing relationshio of agreement between evaluators

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