Study Design — Flashcards

What is the ANOVA test used for? (biostatistics)

prevalence (epidemiology)

meta-analysis (epidemiology)

incidence (epidemiology)

What kind of study compares one group of people with disease to another group of people without disease and looks for an exposure or risk factor that explains the difference?

alternative hypothesis (H1)

Explain how a case-control study works.

Which direction does the tail go in a positive skew distribution? Negative skew?

In a normal distribution, what is the relationship between mean, median, and mode?

Name and explain three common measures of central tendency of a distribution (biostatistics).