Practice Questions

196. A medicinal study reports a 95% confidence interval for the hazard ratio (HR) from a survival analysis as (0.6,0.9). What critical interpretation can be made?

A. The drug increases the hazard of the event.
B. The drug decreases the hazard of the event, and the result is statistically significant as the interval does not include 1.0.
C. The drug has no effect.
D. The hazard ratio is too high.
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194. The technical concept of “alpha level” (or significance level) defines:

A. The probability of making a Type II error.
B. The probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis.
C. The threshold below which a p-value is considered statistically significant.
D. The power of the test.
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193. A critical situational clinical trial is planned to assess a new drug. The biostatistician notes that the proposed sample size is too small to detect a clinically meaningful difference. What is the urgency for intervention?

A. To proceed with the small sample size.
B. To urgently advise that an underpowered study is unethical and a waste of resources, as it has a high chance of missing a true effect (Type II error).
C. To only consider the cost of the trial.
D. To assume the drug will work anyway.
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192. A medicinal study reports a p-value of 0.0001 for a new drug’s effectiveness. What technical interpretation regarding the strength of evidence against the null hypothesis is most accurate?

A. There is very strong evidence against the null hypothesis.
B. There is weak evidence against the null hypothesis.
C. The null hypothesis is true.
D. The drug is harmful.
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190. What technical term describes the distribution of all possible sample means that could be drawn from a population?

A. Population distribution.
B. Sample distribution.
C. Sampling distribution of the mean.
D. Normal distribution.
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189. A critical situational public health survey reports that “the average income in this region is $X.” However, the income distribution is highly skewed. What is the urgency for a biostatistician to advise using a different measure of central tendency?

A. To accept the mean as the best measure.
B. To urgently recommend using the median as a more robust measure of central tendency for skewed data to avoid misrepresenting the typical income.
C. To ignore the skewness.
D. To only use the mode.
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