Assignment 1 Introduction to Biostatistics

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Assignment 1Introduction to Biostatistics
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Activities

• Readings
• Kuzma Bohnenblust
• Chapter 1 Statistics and How They are Used
• Statistics for Dummies
• Part 1 Vital Statistics About Statistics
• This includes chapters 1, 2, 3
• Complete the chapter exercises in Chapter 1 of
  Kuzma and Bohnenblust (you do not need to turn
  this in)
• Complete the activities of this PowerPoint and
  its related assignments.

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Assignment 1

• Go to www.iejhe.org or find a health-related
  professional journal
• Find and download an article that deals with EACH
  of the following
• Survey
• Experimental
• Retrospective/Prospective Studies
• Clinical Trial
• For each study, answer the questions on the next
  page

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Questions

• Briefly (in two or three sentences) describe the
  purpose of the study.
• Describe briefly the methodology used
• Describe the major results
• What did the authors conclude and recommend
• Send these answers with each of the articles
  (URL, pdf, or scanned) that you have found to me
  at kitt_at_siu.edu.

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