Name: Subierre, Jian Carlo S.

Section: 10 Rizal

Activity
Identify the IV and DV of the following situation. Then determine the statistical treatment that
may be used in the situation cited.

1. Understand the relationship between drug dosage and blood pressure of patients.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Blood Pressure of patients
Independent Variable: Drug Dosage
Statistical Treatment: Linear Regression/Pearson r
2. A biostatistician conducting a medical study wanted to create a way to predict a child’s
future height.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Future height of the child
Independent Variable; Potentially several factors like current height, age,
parents' height, etc.
Statistical Treatment: Multiple Regression
3. Effect of the mixing charging, mixing water, and admixture and temperature to the
quality control of the polymer modified cement mortar
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Quality of polymer modified cement mortar
Independent Variable: Mixing charging, mixing water, admixture, and
temperature
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
4. A manufacturing engineer wants to know if some new process leads to a significant
improvement in mean battery life of some product.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Mean battery life of the product
Independent Variable: New Process
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
5. Predict the pull strength of a wire bond in a semiconductor manufacturing process based
on wire length and die height.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Pull strength of wire bond
Independent Variable: Wire length, die height
Statistical Treatment: Regression Analysis
6. Understand the relationship between advertising spending and revenue
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Revenue
Independent Variable: Advertising spending
Statistical Treatment: Pearson r
7. Researchers want to know if a new fuel treatment leads to a change in the mean miles per
gallon of a certain car.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Mean miles per gallon of a certain car
Independent Variable: New fuel treatment
Statistical Treatment: T-test
Name: Subierre, Jian Carlo S.
Section: 10 Rizal

8. A botanist wants to know if two different soils lead to different levels of evaporation in
plants.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Different soils Levels of evaporation in plants
Independent Variable: Different soils
Statistical Treatment: T-test
9. A large scale farm is interested in understanding which of three different fertilizers leads
to the highest crop yield.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Crop Yield
Independent Variable: : Different Fertilizers
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
10. Medical researchers want to know if four different medications lead to different mean
blood pressure reductions in patients.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Mean of blood pressure reductions in patients
Independent Variable: Different Medications
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
11. A grocery chain wants to know if three different types of advertisements affect mean
sales differently.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Mean sales
Independent Variable: Different types of advertisement
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
12. Biologists want to know how different levels of sunlight exposure (no sunlight, low
sunlight, medium sunlight, high sunlight) and watering frequency (daily, weekly) impact
the growth of a certain plant.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Growth of the plant
Independent Variable: Growth of the plant Levels of sunlight exposure and
watering frequency
Statistical Treatment: ANOVA
13. A professor wants to know if two studying techniques lead to different mean exam
scores.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Mean exam scores
Independent Variable: Studying techniques
Statistical Treatment: T-test
14. An epidemiologist studying the spread of an infectious disease wants to predict the future
spread of the illness based upon current known infections.
Answer:
Dependent Variable: Future spread of the illness based upon current known
infections
Independent Variable: Current known infections
Statistical Treatment: Multiple Regression
15. Measure the effect of fertilizer and water on crop yields.
Name: Subierre, Jian Carlo S.
Section: 10 Rizal

Answer:
Dependent Variable: Crop yields
Independent Variable: Fertilizers, water

Statistical Treatment: ANOVA