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The document is an assignment for an epidemiology and biostatistics masters program. It contains 4 questions - the first asks about the probability of choosing two girls from a group of 18 girls and 12 boys, the second asks about presenting analyzed data in health research, the third asks about the probability of exactly 1 out of 10 subjects having a disease with a 10% individual probability, and the fourth provides time data from a medical clinic and asks to calculate various summary statistics like the mean, standard deviation, median, mode and interquartile range.

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The document is an assignment for an epidemiology and biostatistics masters program. It contains 4 questions - the first asks about the probability of choosing two girls from a group of 18 girls and 12 boys, the second asks about presenting analyzed data in health research, the third asks about the probability of exactly 1 out of 10 subjects having a disease with a 10% individual probability, and the fourth provides time data from a medical clinic and asks to calculate various summary statistics like the mean, standard deviation, median, mode and interquartile range.

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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY & BIOSTATISTICS


MASTERS: OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CLINICAL MEDICINE, NURSING
ASSIGNMENT
UNIT CODE: MPH 5128/MBY 5101 UNIT NAME: BIOSTATISTICS
1. Dr. Owino needs two students to help him with a science demonstration for his
class of 18 girls and 12 boys. He randomly chooses one student who comes in
front of classroom. He then chooses a second student from those still seated.
What is the probability that both students chosen are girls? (5 marks)
2. Discuss various ways of presenting analyzed data in Health research
(10mks)
3. Suppose we have 10 subjects and the probability of having a disease at
one point in time for 1 subject is 0.1. What is the probability that exactly
1 of the 10 subjects has the disease? (5mks)
4. The times taken by patients to undergo a minor surgery in MKU clinic are
recorded in the table below.

Time in 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39


seconds

Frequency 4 12 20 22 5 3

Compute: (20 marks)


i. Mean
ii. Standard deviation
iii. Median
iv. Mode
v. Interquartile range

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