EPID 309 Exam 1- Quizzes
The English anesthesiologist who linked cholera outbreaks to contaminated water and
innovated several of the key epidemiological methods that remain valid and in use today
was:
Question options:
Sir Percival Pott
John Snow
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner - answer John Snow
Continuous data can be converted to categorical data, and vice versa.
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
An example of a categorical variable is eye color
Question options:
True
False - answerTrue
In 1930, no one died from RMSF.
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
The decrease in the case fatality rate in the 1950s was probably due to decreased
population at the end of World War -II (ended in 1945).
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
A ___ is a type of graph that shows the frequency of cases for categories of a
categorical (discrete) variable.
Question options:
histogram
, pie chart
bar graph
dose response curve - answerbar graph
A ____ enables a reader to detect trends in the data, often time trends.
Question options:
line graph
bar graph
pie chart
histogram - answerline graph
A type of graph that is used to display the frequency distribution for grouped categories
of a continuous variable is a ___.
Question options:
pie chart
line graph
bar graph
histogram - answerhistogram
An epidemiologist is asked to comment on the association between microcephaly and
Zika.
Question options:
She evaluates the data presented in the literature and discusses what studies are
showing about how Zika and microcephaly may be causality associated.
He replies no comment. Epidemiology is science and scientists don't know how to talk
to the media.
He comments that there isn't a lot known and tells the reporter to have people call in
with their stories so he can use the data for a new study.
She uses her experience as a mother and talks about the worst case of microcephaly
she's heard about. That way she has the exception that proves the rule and she can
sway the public to her view. - answerShe evaluates the data presented in the literature
and discusses what studies are showing about how Zika and microcephaly may be
causality associated.
The English anesthesiologist who linked cholera outbreaks to contaminated water and
innovated several of the key epidemiological methods that remain valid and in use today
was:
Question options:
Sir Percival Pott
John Snow
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner - answer John Snow
Continuous data can be converted to categorical data, and vice versa.
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
An example of a categorical variable is eye color
Question options:
True
False - answerTrue
In 1930, no one died from RMSF.
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
The decrease in the case fatality rate in the 1950s was probably due to decreased
population at the end of World War -II (ended in 1945).
Question options:
True
False - answerFalse
A ___ is a type of graph that shows the frequency of cases for categories of a
categorical (discrete) variable.
Question options:
histogram
, pie chart
bar graph
dose response curve - answerbar graph
A ____ enables a reader to detect trends in the data, often time trends.
Question options:
line graph
bar graph
pie chart
histogram - answerline graph
A type of graph that is used to display the frequency distribution for grouped categories
of a continuous variable is a ___.
Question options:
pie chart
line graph
bar graph
histogram - answerhistogram
An epidemiologist is asked to comment on the association between microcephaly and
Zika.
Question options:
She evaluates the data presented in the literature and discusses what studies are
showing about how Zika and microcephaly may be causality associated.
He replies no comment. Epidemiology is science and scientists don't know how to talk
to the media.
He comments that there isn't a lot known and tells the reporter to have people call in
with their stories so he can use the data for a new study.
She uses her experience as a mother and talks about the worst case of microcephaly
she's heard about. That way she has the exception that proves the rule and she can
sway the public to her view. - answerShe evaluates the data presented in the literature
and discusses what studies are showing about how Zika and microcephaly may be
causality associated.
