Q - Week 10 [Introduction to Biostatistics] Flashcards
Average number of years that a newborn is expected
to live.
Life expectancy at birth
Reflects both incidence and the probability of
surviving with disease.
Prevalence
A type of descriptive statistics that are based on
frequency and percentage.
Categorical Data
Data are obtained by investigator himself
Primary Data
Is an attributes that describes a person, place or
thing.
Variable
Concerned with reasons for changes in populations
and its implications.
Demography
Relationship between two numbers in which one is
divided by the other
Ratio
Measures how fast people are added to the
population through births
Crude Birth Rate
A type of statistics that is explanatory or predictive.
Analytical Statistics
Variable that are based on exposure or treatment.
Independent Variable