HLTH 485 ACTIVITY 1 INSTRUCTIONS Use the answer sheet at the end of the document to submit your answers to the questions below. Consider this data...
HLTH 485
Activity 1 Instructions
Use the answer sheet at the end of the document to submit your answers to the questions below.
Consider this data set showing 9 participants’ total cholesterol levels.
185 225 240 196 175 180 194 147 223
Compute the sample mean.
Compute the sample standard deviation.
Compute the median.
Compute the Interquartile range (Hint: find the first and third quartiles, then find the difference. Remember: third quartile – first quartile).
Refer to the table below to compute the Age Specific rates.
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| Whites |
| Blacks |
| Other | ||||||||||
| Years | Cases | Population | Age Specific |
| Cases | Population | Age Specific |
| Cases | Population | Age Specific | ||||
| < 50 | 3,616 | 7,420,076 | 1,415 | 3,344,874 | 662 | 1,586,388 | |||||||||
| 50-54 | 1,913 | 830,549 | 690 | 293,626 | 286 | 148,548 | |||||||||
| 55-59 | 2,094 | 736,737 | 692 | 244,829 | 293 | 131,258 | |||||||||
| 60-64 | 2,043 | 567,178 | 577 | 162,834 | 194 | 89,008 | |||||||||
| 65-69 | 1,788 | 400,785 | 443 | 111,761 | 2,066 | 69,068 | |||||||||
| 70+ | 4,940 | 1,210,138 | 1,026 | 266,941 | 429 | 177,188 | |||||||||
A prospective cohort study showed that 200 new cases of disease X occurred in 2,000 persons-year.
Calculate the person-time incidence rate
Calculate 95% confidence interval
Go to the U.S. Census Bureau’s site on international demographic data: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/pyramids.html.
Once you are on the site, select the “Data” tab and then “International Data Base.”
Select Afghanistan and the United States, and under “Select Report” scroll down to “Population Pyramid.”
Then, submit your job. How does the age distribution compare between these two populations? Answer must be at least 4 complete sentences.
Submit your Activity 1 by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 3.
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| 2. Fill out the table by computing the Age Specific rates.
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