Understanding Medical Data

Which of the following is an example of categorical data?

• Age
  

• Blood pressure
  

• Blood type
  

• Height

Which of these best describes ordinal data?

• Temperature in Celsius

• Pain level: Mild, Moderate, Severe

• Weight in kilograms

• Gender

Continuous data can take on any value within a range

• True

• False

Which of the following are common sources of medical data?
(Select all that apply)

• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

• Clinical TrialsClinical Trials

• Random Guessing

• Patient Surveys

Why is it important to correctly classify the type of data in medical research?

• To avoid using computers

• To use appropriate statistical methods

• To simplify all data

• To create fun graphs