MCQ-Statistics

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FRCPath Part1 Course

Audit, Statistics and Research EMQ 1 A. B. C. D. E.

Measures current service against a standard Designed and conducted to generate new knowledge Involves an intervention in use only Addresses clearly defined questions, aims and objectives Designed and conducted to produce information to inform delivery of best care

Please assign the above options to describe: Clinical audit Research MCQ 2 Clinical audit ultimately is a… A - Quality improvement process B - Data collection process C - Management improvisation D - Monitoring and reporting process

MCQ 3 If the outcome data are metric, unpaired and show normal distribution with similar standard deviations, the appropriate statistical test to use is: A- Chi-squared test B- Mann-Whitney test C- Two-sample t test D- Fisher’s exact test E- McNemar’s test EMQ 4 For each question select the most likely condition from the list of options, each may be used once, more than once or not at all A. B. C. D. E. F. G.

Mann-Whitney U test Chi squared test McNemar’s test Fisher’s exact test Two sample t test (unpaired) Wikoxon signed rank test Two sample t test (paired)

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FRCPath Part1 Course 1. A sample of teenagers are divided into male and female on the one hand, and based on dieting on the other. We hypothesize, that the proportion of dieting individuals is higher among the women than among the men, and we want to test whether any difference of proportions that we observe is significant 2. Subjects are tested prior to a treatment, say for high blood pressure, and the same subjects are tested again after treatment with a blood-pressure lowering medication 3. The ratio of male to female students in the Science Faculty is exactly 1:1, but in the Pharmacology Honours class over the past ten years there have been 80 females and 40 males. Is this a significant departure from expectation?

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