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StatisticalTermsQuiz
byLauraKing,MA,ELS

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1.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthedistancebetweenthe25thand75th
percentiles,usedtodescribethedispersionofvalues?

confidenceinterval
Fdistribution
interquartilerange
normalrange

2.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstheprobabilityofobtainingtheobserveddataif
thenullhypothesiswereexactlytrue?

Pvalue
relativerisk
reliability
truepositiverate

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3.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthesizeofthelikelihoodacceptabletothe
investigatorsthatarelationshipobservedbetween2variablesisduetochance?

level
level
statistic
Pvalue

4.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstheprobabilityofshowingnosignificant
differencewhenatruedifferenceexists(afalseacceptanceofthenullhypothesis)?

level
level
statistic
Pvalue

5.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstherangeofnumericalexpressionswithinwhich
onecanbeconfidentthatthepopulationvaluethestudyisintendedtoestimatelies?

coefficientofdetermination
coefficientofvariation
confidenceinterval
confidencelimits

6.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansagreementbetweenanobservedsetofvalues
andasecondsetthatisderivedwhollyorpartlyonahypotheticalbasis?

goodnessoffit
groupmatching
truepositiverate
unity

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7.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansatestconsideredtobethediagnosticstandard
foraparticulardiseaseorcondition,usedasabasisofcomparisonforothertests?

CoxManteltest
criterionstandard
Dunnetttest
ttest

8.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansatheoreticalmeasureofthelikelihoodthatan
individualwillexperienceaneventwithinagivenperiod?

attributablerisk
cohorteffect
Hawthorneeffect
hazardrate

9.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstheratioofthestandarddeviationtothemean?

coefficientofdetermination
coefficientofvariation
correlationcoefficient
criterionstandard

10.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansastatisticusedtomeasurenonrandom
agreementbetweenobserversormeasurements?

Cstatistic
statistic
Yatescorrection
zscore

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11.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthecorrelationcoefficientforbivariate
analysis?

r
R
r2
R2

12.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansameasureoftheareaunderareceiver
operatingcharacteristiccurve?

Cstatistic
HotellingTstatistic
statistic
Spearmanrankcorrelation

13.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansamethodofusingtherelativedeathratesin
subgroupstocomparedifferencesbetweensurvivalcurvesfordifferenttreatments?

logranktest
MannWhitneytest
McNemartest
ttest

14.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthespreadordispersionofdata(thepositive
squarerootofthevariance)?

standarddeviation(SD)
standarderror(SE)
standarderroroftheestimate
standarderrorofthemean(SEM)

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15.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstheverticalaxisofagraph?

abscissa
xaxis
yaxis
zaxis

16.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthehorizontalaxisofagraph?

ordinate
xaxis
yaxis
zaxis

17.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthethirdaxisofa3dimensionalgraph?

abscissa
xaxis
yaxis
zaxis

18.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansthenumberofarithmeticallyindependent
comparisonsthatcanbemadeamongmembersofasample?

analysisofcovariance(ANCOVA)
analysisofvariance(ANOVA)
areaunderthecurve(AUC)
df(degreesoffreedom)

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19.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeanstheprobabilityofdevelopinganoutcome
withinaspecifiedperiodiftheriskfactorispresent,dividedbytheprobabilityof
developingtheoutcomeinthatsameperiodiftheriskfactorisabsent?

Pvalue
relativerisk
reliability
truepositiverate

20.Whichofthefollowingtermsmeansastatisticalmethodusedtocomparea
continuousdependentvariableandmorethan1nominalindependentvariable?

analysisofcovariance
analysisofvariance
bivariateanalysis
discriminantanalysis

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