Investigate the effectiveness of an experimental drug

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1. A clinical trial is run to evaluate the effectiveness of a new drug to prevent preterm delivery. A total of n=250 pregnant women agree to participate and are randomly assigned to receive either the new drug or a placebo and followed through the course of pregnancy. Among 125 women receiving the new drug, 24 deliver preterm and among 125 women receiving the placebo, 38 deliver preterm.

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions of women who deliver preterm

Answer choices:

(-0.35, 0.07) or (-0.07, 0.35)

(-0.1, 0.09) or (-0.09, 0.1)

(-0.22, 0.00) or (0.00, 0.22)

(-0.43, 0.2) or (-0.2, 0.43)

2. clinical trial is run to investigate the effectiveness of an experimental drug in reducing preterm delivery to a drug considered standard care and to placebo. Pregnant women are enrolled and randomly assigned to receive either the experimental drug, the standard drug or placebo. Women are followed through delivery and classified as delivering preterm (< 37 weeks) or not. The data are shown below.

Preterm Delivery	Experimental Drug	Standard Drug	Placebo
Yes	17	23	35
No	83	77	65

Using this data, generate a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions of women delivering preterm in the experimental and standard drug treatment groups

Answer choice:

(-0.255, 0.02) or (-0.02, 0.255)

(-0.18, 0.09) or (-0.09, 0.18)

(-0.17, 0.05) or (-0.05, 0.17)

(-0.15, 0.10) or (-0.10, 0.15)

3. The following data were collected in a clinical trial to compare a new drug to a placebo for its effectiveness in lowering total serum cholesterol. Generate a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all patients with total cholesterol < 200.

New Drug

(n=75)

Placebo

(n=75)

Total Sample

(n=150)

Mean (SD) Total Serum Cholesterol

185.0 (24.5)

204.3 (21.8)

194.7 (23.2)

% Patients with Total Cholesterol < 200

78.0%

65.0%

71.5%

4. A study is run comparing HDL cholesterol levels between men who exercise regularly and those who do not. The data are shown below.

Regular Exercise	N	Mean	Std Dev
Yes	35	48.5	12.5
No	120	56.9	11.9

Generate a 95% confidence interval for the difference in mean HDL levels between men who exercise regularly and those who do not.

Answer choice:

(-13.55, -4.55) or (4.55, 13.55)

(-12.93, -3.87) or (3.87, 12.93)

(-12.45, -3.25) or (3.25, 12.45)

(-13.3, -3.0) or (3.0, 13.3)

5. The following table shows the distribution of BMI in children living in US and European urban neighborhoods. (The data are in millions.)

Neighborhood	Normal Weight	Overweight	Obese
US	125	50	40
Europe	101	42	21

What proportion of children living in a US urban neighborhood is overweight?

The proportion of children living in a US urban neighborhood who are overweight = ( 50/ (125+50+40)) = 0.232 correct

Answer choice:(-13.55, -4.55) or (4.55, 13.55),

(-12.93, -3.87) or (3.87, 12.93),

(-12.45, -3.25) or (3.25, 12.45),

(-13.3, -3.0) or (3.0, 13.3)

6. The following table shows the distribution of BMI in children living in US and European urban neighborhoods. (The data are in millions.)

Neighborhood	Normal Weight	Overweight	Obese
US	125	50	40
Europe	101	42	21

What proportion of children is overweight?

7. The following table shows the numbers of patients classified as underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese according to their diabetes status.

	Underweight	Normal Weight	Overweight	Obese
Diabetes	8	34	65	43
No Diabetes	12	85	93	40

What proportion of patients is overweight?

8. What is the best type of graph to display the following data?

Gender	Cigarettes per day
Female	45
Male	20
Female	30
Female	40
Male	90
Male	50
Male	20
Male	23
Female	9

9. What is the best type of graph to display the following data?

Duration of hospital stay:

5, 10, 6, 11, 5, 14, 30, 11, 17, 3, 9, 3

Answer choices:

1 Scatterplot 2 Side-by-side boxplot 3 Bar graph 4 Boxplot

10. What is the best type of graph to display the following data?

GDP per capita fertility rate

3432.0224 3.783

6882.4069 4.026

678.99817 4.508

3623.5324 2.338

5741.2071 1.399

35477.473 1.43

47548.688 2.04

691.36909 2.3

19858.343 1.45

39152.308 1.994

2942.4385 3.221

14623.479 2.175

4387.7071 2.436

84732.957 1.52

3928.8789 2.546

1455.1022 2.479

24646.021 2.644

3056.1185 2.735

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