Lesson 1

Question 1

The study of distribution and determinants of health, disease, or injury in human populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems

Answer 1

Epidemiology

Question 2

The science and art of dealing with variation of data in order to obtain reliable results and conclusions.

Also the science and art which deals with collection, tabulation, presentation, analysis and drawing conclusion from numerical data

Answer 2

Statistics

Question 3

Application of statistics to problem in the biological sciences, health and medicine

Answer 3

Biostatistics

Question 4

Father of Biostatistics

Answer 4

Francis Galton

Question 5

Physical method to the study of diseases, check efficacy of vaccines, illness,morbidity and martality

Answer 5

Medical statistics

Question 6

Whether healthy or not, crude birth rate

Answer 6

Health statistics

Question 7

Vital events, birth, death, marriage

Answer 7

Vital statistics

Question 8

Used to estimate the extent of the disease in the population

Answer 8

Survey study

Question 9

Designed to monitor or detect specific disease

Answer 9

Surveillance study

Question 10

Investigate association between an exposure, often therapeutic treatment and disease outcome. Individuals are intentionally placed into treatment groups by investigators

Answer 10

Experimental study

Question 11

Investigate association between an exposure and disease outcome.
They rely on natural allocation of individuals to exposed and non exposed groups

Answer 11

Observational study

Question 12

Provides an exploratory assessment of the data from the study

Answer 12

Descriptive statistical method

Question 13

Exploratory data analysis techniques

Answer 13

Organization and summarization of data
Tables and graphs
Summary measures

Question 14

The data collected by a particular person or organization for his/her own use from primary source

Answer 14

Primary data

Question 15

Methods of collecting primary data

Answer 15

Direct personal observation
Indirect oral investigation
Investigation through schedules

Question 16

The data collected by some other person for his/her own use but the investigator can also use it

Answer 16

Secondary data

Question 17

Sources of secondary data

Answer 17

Published official report
Journal or newspaper
Local government publication
University and research institute publication

Question 18

Categorical data (types of variables)

Answer 18

Qualitative variable

Question 19

Numerical data (type of variables)

Answer 19

Quantitative data

Question 20

Number of children in family, blood sugar, blood pressure

Always whole number

Answer 20

Discrete data

Question 21

Measurement can be made to a precise value

Decimal number

Answer 21

Continuous data

Question 22

When the study looks at only one type of variable

Answer 22

Univariate data

Question 23

When a study examines the relationship between two variable

Answer 23

Bivariate data

Question 24

(Sources of data) performed in various departments like physiology, biochemistry, etc

Answer 24

Experiment

Question 25

(Sources of data) are carried out by health workers in the field to know the magnitude of the problem for implementation of control measures

Answer 25

Survey

Question 26

These are registers or books maintained over a long period for vital statistics like birth, death, marriage, etc

Answer 26

Record

Question 27

An attribute that describes a person, place or thing

Answer 27

Variable