Biostats Module 4
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What does sensitivity measure in screening or diagnosis?

  • Ability to correctly identify people with the condition (correct)
  • Ability to correctly exclude people with the condition
  • Ability to correctly identify people without the condition
  • Ability to correctly exclude people without the condition

In relative risk, what does a value of 1 indicate?

  • There is no change in risk (correct)
  • There is an increased risk
  • There is a decreased risk
  • The study is inconclusive

What does specificity measure in screening or diagnosis?

  • Ability to correctly exclude people without the condition (correct)
  • Ability to correctly exclude people with the condition
  • Ability to correctly identify people with the condition
  • Ability to correctly identify people without the condition

In odds ratio, what does a value greater than 1 suggest?

<p>There is an increased risk (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of studies use relative risk as a measure?

<p>Cohort studies (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does an odds ratio of less than 1 suggest?

<p>There is a decreased risk (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does survival analysis primarily examine?

<p>Duration of time until an event occurs (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the formula for calculating sensitivity in screening or diagnosis?

<p>a/(a+c) (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which statistical method examines the duration of time until an event occurs?

<p>Survival analysis (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the formula for calculating specificity in screening or diagnosis?

<p>d/(b+d) (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the x-axis of a Kaplan Meier Curve?

<p>Time (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which measure is used for cohort studies?

<p>Relative risk (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean if the relative risk is less than 1?

<p>There is a decreased risk (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the y-axis of a Kaplan Meier Curve?

<p>Proportion of the sample that have not had the event (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which measure is used to correctly screen out people without a certain condition?

<p>Specificity (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does a relative risk value of less than 1 indicate?

<p>Decreased risk (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In odds ratio, what does a value greater than 1 suggest?

<p>Increase in odds (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of survival analysis?

<p>To examine duration until an event occurs (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does sensitivity measure in screening or diagnosis?

<p>Incidence of true positives (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a Kaplan Meier Curve, what does the y-axis represent?

<p>Proportion of the sample that have not had the event (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of studies use odds ratio as a measure?

<p>Case-control studies (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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