BUSI 630 Quiz Statistical Analysis
BUSI 630 Quiz Statistical Analysis and Testing
Covers the Textbook material from Module 6: Week 6 — Module 8: Week 8.
- The proportion of patients from an area who use a particular hospital is called the _
- True or False? “Big data” refers to data sets that are too big for a single computer to handle.
- True or False? Health administrators and policy makers have similar perspectives and use the same methods to dene healthcare markets.
- True or False? A healthcare market can be accurately defined by using the Elzinga-Hogarty test.
- The _________________ include state-specific encounter-level data on ambulatory surgery and other outpatient services.
- Which of the following are examples of secondary prevention?
- Refers to the progression of disease to a level of irreversibility and serious consequences including disability and death.
- Which of the following entities makes recommendations to practitioners regarding various preventative services?
- The probability that a test-positive individual actually has the disease for which the person was tested is known as the:
- True or False? Tertiary prevention focuses on restoration of function and avoidance of permanent disability.
- This is a statistical measure of the spread of the values of a quantitative variable around the mean.
- True or False? Categorical variables have a numeric value.
- This type of variable can only be assigned one of two possible values, such as yes or no.
- Which of the following correlation coefficients would indicate a strong a positive relationship between two variables?
- Which P value indicates that there is a less than 10% chance of the observation occurring by chance?
- The steps used to estimate the level, frequency and duration of exposure to a risk factor is known as:
- This type of study investigates the effects of some phenomenon, risk factor, or intervention in the same population over different periods or in a population in one geographic area as compared with one or more other populations in other areas.
- True or False? Cohort studies allow researchers to demonstrate a causal relationship between a disease and a risk factor.
- In this type of cohort study, subjects are followed forward in time through their past medical records to understand how their health status changed over time.
- True or False? In observational studies researchers can administer a treatment or intervention to study participants.
- If a study is conducted to investigate the preventative potential of a new drug, the study is called a
- If a study seeks to enroll women over the age of 50 who meet a certain income level, the study has:
- In a single blind study, which of the following entities doesn’t know who is assigned to the study group and who is assigned to the control group?
- The population of interest in a study is known as the ______________ population.
- This is calculated prior to the onset of a study to ensure that the desired power of the study is attained.