ASSIGNMENT/ TUGASAN

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NBHS1602
BIOSTATISTIC/ BIOSTATISTIK
MAY SEMESTER 2021

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION / ARAHAN KHUSUS

1. Answer in ENGLISH or MALAY.

Jawab dalam BAHASA INGGERIS atau BAHASA MELAYU.

2. Submit your assignment ONCE only in a SINGLE file.

Hantar tugasan SEKALI sahaja dalam SATU fail.

3. Submit your assignment ONLINE.

Tugasan ini dihantar secara ONLINE.

4. Submission date : 12 JULY 2021.

Tarikh penghantaran: 12 JULAI 2021.

5. This assignment accounts for 50% of the total marks for the course.
Tugasan ini menyumbang sebanyak 50% dari jumlah markah kursus.

1. Answer all the questions and show your detailed workings clearly and systematically.
Jawab semua soalan dan tunjukkan jalan kerja yang terperinci anda dengan jelas dan sistemat
 ASSIGNMENT QUESTION / SOALAN TUGASAN

PART I / BAHAGIAN I

QUESTION 1

1a) Briefly explain the following and provide two examples of each:
i) Quantitative Variable
ii) Qualitative Variable
iii) Ordinal Data

1b) State whether the following quantitative variables are discrete or continuous and give your
reason.
i. Number of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in December 2020.
ii. Weight of male adults registered for a weight loss program.
iii. Number of Covid-19 testing centers available in each state.
iv. Amount of fluid in each bottle of orange juice.

(8 Marks)
ANSWER Q1

1a)

i) A quantitative variable represents thus a measure and is numerical for example

weight of student.

ii) Qualitative variables non numerical it may be nominal, ordinal or dichotomous for
example ethnicity.

iii) Ordinal data is value that can be arranged and distance between two values is not
known can cannot be measure.

1b)
i) Discrete data which because Number of patients who tested positive for Covid-
19
in December 2020 are whole number which from obtain counting process
ii) Continuous data which because weight of male adults registered for a weight
loss program are decimal number which through measuring process
iii) Discrete data which because number of Covid-19 testing centers available in
each state are whole number which obtain from counting process
iv) Continuous data which because Amount of fluid in each bottle of orange juice
are decimal number which through measuring process
QUESTION 2

The following are scores on a final exam:

27.5 64.0 38.5 91.5 73.0 65.5 63.0 45.0
93.0 78.0 84.0 73.0 89.0 80.0 53.0 57.0

Calculate:
i) mean score;
ii) mode;
iii) median;
iv) third quartile.

(7 Marks)

i)
 PART II / BAHAGIAN II

Instructions:
Discuss with your course mates and formulate solutions to the following questions.
There will be platform for group discussions readily available for you in the discussion forum
platform. You may select any group to work with. You are to write your own answers for the
questions and show all your work. As part of your answers, you should include snapshots of the
forum discussions as proof of your participation in the group discussions for each of the
questions. (6 marks allocated for participation in group discussions)
QUESTION 3

Given the following set of data:

2.5 3.0 4.0 2.7 3.1 2.8 4.1 2.5 2.6 3.7 4.3 3.9 2.9 4.5
2.0 3.3 2.6 3.2 4.4 2.2 3.2 4.2 4.2 3.3 2.2 2.3 4.2 2.9

a) Construct a frequency distribution table and use 2.0 as the lower limit of the first class.
b) Obtain the lower and upper boundaries, the class midpoints, and relative frequencies.
c) Draw a histogram and frequency polygon (separately) based on the data.
d) Prepare a “less than or equal to” cumulative frequency table and polygon.
(Note: computer generated charts are not acceptable).
(20 Marks)

QUESTION 4
Do a search on the internet for data related to health that will be appropriate for making
comparisons. (Suggestion: https://www.who.int/data/gho)
a) Provide complete source of information for your data (eg: a URL if the data was
taken from the internet/ screen shots of the related page(s) if the data was taken
from a printed source)
b) Create the necessary tables for the data found.
c) Decide on the appropriate chart(s) (bar chart/multiple bar chart/pie chart) to
represent the data and construct the chart(s). (Note: computer generated charts are
not acceptable).
d) Give comments and/or make comparisons on the data based on the chart(s)
produced.

(15 Marks)

[Total: 50 Marks]

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