INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS AND VARIABLES

This means the application of statistical methods to the life sciences.

• Biostatistics

• Biology

• Statistics

• Health statistics

Which of these fall under discrete variables?

• Meters

• Skull circumference

• Volume of an orange juice

• Daily admission to a hospital

Educational Attainment

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Ordinal possesses the character of the origin or zero points.

• TRUE

• FALSE

It is a variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment.

• Dependent Variable

• Continuous Variable

• Discrete Variable

• Independent Variable

Severity of Disease (mild, moderate, severe)

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

Color

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

IQ

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

Blood Pressure

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

Course Code of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

• MT-MLS 201

• MT-MLS 203

• MT-MLS 204

• MT-MLS 202

• MT-MSL 202