In: Statistics and Probability
QUESTION 1
If a person doesn’t have a disease and they test negative for it, it is an example of:
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 False positive  | 
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 True Positive  | 
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 True negative  | 
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 False negative  | 
QUESTION 2
When collecting data with multiple researchers, how a researcher views the data can affect the outcome of the study. To avoid this issue a researcher should assess:
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 Sensitivity  | 
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 Homogeneity  | 
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 Inter-Rater reliability  | 
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 Content validity  | 
QUESTION 3
The likelihood of a sick patient testing positive for a disease is:
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 Specificity  | 
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 Reliability  | 
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 Predictive Validity  | 
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 Sensitivity  | 
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 None of the above  | 
QUESTION 4
You have discovered a new tool that records the outcome of sexually transmitted diseases. A previously validated tool reports that genital herpes is 40% in Chicago. The correlation between the old tool and your tool is .5. This result indicates:
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 Convergent validity  | 
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 Divergent validity  | 
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 Content validity  | 
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 Ratio  | 
QUESTION 5
A test is developed for adolescent Hispanic mothers. The wording of the test is at a fifth grade level and in English. If the participants cannot read English, what does this affect?
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 Validity  | 
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 Sampling stability  | 
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 Measurement capacity  | 
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 Inter-rater reliability  | 
QUESTION 6
A doctor at Lakeside hospital discovered a test that was a very successful at correctly identifying when a person has the H1N1 virus. This would be a measure of:
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 Sensitivity  | 
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 Specificity  | 
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 Convergent validity  | 
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 Homogeneity  | 
QUESTION 7
If a patient does not have a disease, the probability that the test for the disease will be negative:
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 Readability  | 
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 Specificity  | 
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 Sensitivity  | 
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 Negative predictive value  | 
QUESTION 8
The Chembio test can be used to screen HIV-infected patients for hepatitis C. According to the CDC, the prevalence of HIV and HCV co-infection is approximately 25%. Use the outcome from the screening test (results below) for the Chembio HCV Rapid Test to determine the likelihood that a randomly selected HIV-infected patient will also have an HCV infection given their Chembio HCV Rapid Test returns a positive result. That is, determine P(HCV Infection | Positive Chembio HCV Test).
Round answer to nearest tenth of a percent (i.e. 79.2%).
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 Positive Chembio Test Result  | 
 Negative Chembio Test Result  | 
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 Hepatitis C  | 
 335  | 
 37  | 
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 No Hepatitis C  | 
 15  | 
 1153  |