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MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

CMH1111 Biostatistics & Demography

Take Home Assignment 1: 5th November 2024


Submission Deadline: Friday, 08th November 2024

Submit your work through Program leaders/Class presidents who will bring scripts to
the Department of Community Health, Room 8.

Question 1
Malnutrition is common in children under five years. Data on the annual number of
malnourished children (males and females) identified was collected from regional referral
hospitals over a five-year period. The data was collected for the following periods.
1. Jul 2019 to Jun 2020
2. Jul 2020 to Jun 2021
3. Jul 2021 to Jun 2022
4. Jul 2022 to Jun 2023
5. Jul 2023 to Jun 2024
Statistical analysis was performed separately for females and males to determine whether
the number of malnourished children identified changed over the years.

(i) Analysis of the number of malnourished females

numfemalemal Coefficient Std. err. t P>|t| [95% conf. interval]

timeperiod 61.83069 25.61466 2.41 0.019 10.70362 112.9578


_cons 7.631683 89.69107 0.09 0.932 -171.3924 186.6558

R-Squared=0.08

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(ii) Analysis of the number of malnourished males

nummalemal Coefficient Std. err. t P>|t| [95% conf. interval]

timeperiod 23.53057 14.47203 1.63 0.109 -5.363773 52.42492


_cons 25.55505 51.01565 0.50 0.618 -76.30098 127.4111

R-Squared=0.0.04

Use the information given to answer questions a to f.


a) Write a general linear regression equation for malnourished female children. (1 marks)
b) Determine the change in the number of malnourished female children for one unit change
in years. (1 mark)
c) Interpret the p-value of 0.019 (1 mark)

d) Considering the analysis results of male data, the p-value for the time period is 0.109.
What does this mean? (1 mark)

e) For male children, the 95% confidence interval for the coefficient of time period is -5.36
to 52.42. Interpret this confidence interval. (2 marks)

f) Analysis of the number of malnourished males by time period revealed an R-squared of


0.04. Determine the value of R and provide an interpretation of this value. (2 marks)

g) Considering all the data analysis output, was the data analyst justified in analyzing male
and female data separately? (5 marks)

Question 2
Below is data collected from patients suspected of having tuberculosis. Use it to answer
questions a) to h).
Patient Age Sex Weight Smear Culture Alive
ID (kg) Result Result after 6
months
001 69 M 56.3 Positive Negative Y
002 62 M 73.5 Positive Negative Y
003 68 F 57.6 Positive Positive N
004 77 F 65.6 Negative Positive Y
005 53 M 81.1 Negative Positive Y
006 45 M 56.8 Positive Negative Y
007 59 M 56.3 Positive Negative Y
008 52 M 73.5 Positive Negative Y

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009 58 F 57.6 Positive Positive N
010 57 F 65.6 Negative Positive Y
011 58 M 71.1 Negative Positive Y
012 47 M 56.5 Positive Negative Y
013 69 M 56.3 Positive Negative Y
014 62 F 57.6 Positive Positive N
015 68 F 65.6 Negative Positive Y
016 67 M 81.1 Negative Positive Y
017 63 M 56.8 Positive Negative Y
018 42 M 56.3 Positive Negative Y
019 49 M 56.3 Positive Negative Y
020 52 M 73.5 Positive Negative Y
021 68 F 57.9 Positive Positive N
022 72 F 75.6 Negative Positive Y
023 53 M 80.2 Negative Positive Y
024 49 M 59.3 Positive Negative Y
025 46 F 58.6 Positive Positive N

a) Identify which variables are numerical and which are categorical. (2 marks)

b) Identify the appropriate measure of central tendency for age data. Determine the value of
this measure of central tendency. (3 marks)

c) Identify the appropriate means of dispersion for weight data. Determine the value of this
measure of dispersion from the data. (3 marks)

d) Determine the proportion of the sample with positive culture. (1 mark)

e) If the sampling distribution of culture results follows a binomial distribution, determine


the average number of expected positive cultures from a sample of 1000 specimens from
the same population. (2 marks)

f) Create a 2X2 table to summarize Culture and Smear Results data. (2 marks)

g) Using the summarised data in the Table in part f), determine the probability of a smear
positive result given that Culture is Positive. (3 marks)

h) Determine the joint probability of obtaining Culture and Smear Positive results. (2 marks)

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