· One thousand people are enrolled in a 10-year cohort study. At the start of the study,
1. What is the cumulative incidence of CVD over 10 years?
Cumulative Incidence 10 Years =
2. What is prevalence of CVD at baseline?
Prevalence Baseline =
3. What is the prevalence of CVD at 10 years?
Prevalence 10 Years =
· A study is deigned to investigate whether there is a difference in response to various treatments in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The outcome is a patients self-reported effect of treatment. The data are shown above. Are symptoms independent of treatment? Conduct a Chi Square test at a 5% level of significance.
|
|
Symptoms worsened |
No effect |
Symptoms improved |
total |
|
Treament1
|
22 |
14 |
14 |
50 |
|
Treatment 2 |
14 |
15 |
21 |
50 |
|
Treatment 3 |
9 |
12 |
29 |
50 |
1. df=
2. Critical value
3. Computed statistic
Based on comparing the computed statistics to the critical value which of the following are true?
a. There is significant evidence , alpha 0=0.05, to show that treatment and response are not independent
b. There is not significant evidence, alph=0.05, to show that treatment and response are not independent
c. There is significant evidence, alpha =0.05, to show that treatment and response are independent
d. B and c