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IV Year Pharma-D (Post Baccalaureate) Degree Examination – Sep 2012
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks
BIOSTATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Q.P. CODE: 2870
Your answers should be specific to the questions asked.
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Draw neat labeled diagrams wherever necessary.
LONG ESSAYS (Answer any two) 2 x 10 = 20 Marks
- What are case studies?
- Define a) incidence rate b) prevalence rate, c) Relative risk, and d) Attributable risk
- Distinguish between the measures of central tendency and measures of spread (or variation)
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SHORT ESSAYS (Answer any six) 6 x 5 = 30 Marks
- What is linear regression? How is it useful in pharmaceutical sciences?
- Define relative measures of variation. Explain its importance over standard deviation with an illustration
- Explain the role of computers in maintaining patient medication profiles
- Describe the different types of graphical methods used for presenting qualitative data
- Write a note on statistical software
- a) define Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis
b) relationship between sample size and power of the test - The following data on pulse rate are obtained in a study to assess the effectiveness of two drugs:
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Drug B: 98, 82, 89, 85, 78, 81, 80, 73, 71, 70
Test which drug is more effective in reducing the pulse rate by stating suitable hypothesis (Critical value : 1.734) - What are the assumptions under which Chi-square test can be applied to analyze data? If these assumptions fail which alternative statistical test do you suggest analyzing data? For what type of data chi-square test is applied?
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SHORT ANSWERS 10 x 2 = 20 Marks
- Student's paired t-test
- Quantitative and qualitative variables
- Scattered plot
- Type-I and Type- II errors
- Sign test
- Semi logarithmic plots
- Percentiles
- ANOVA
- Role of sample size in the calculation of confidence interval
- Role of standard error in testing of hypothesis.
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