PH660 Biostatistics

PH-660: Principles of Biostatistics I

You are required to demonstrate knowledge of PSPP (an alternative to SPSS) by using the PRACTICUM DATA to analyze data from National HealthEpidemiologic Follow-up Study (NHEFS).You are expected to examine the association between gender and years of smoking. You should organize your paper under the following suggested headings:

1. Title of your project.

2. Introduction
State the research problem (e.g., Why is smoking a public health problem? What are the health consequences on population health? Government expenditure? Other issues?). You must cite relevant literature to support your observations.

3. Study Significance and Purpose
Briefly and clearly state the significance and purpose of the study.

4. Research Question
You should clearly and succintly state yor research question.

5. Hypotheses

State the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis clearly.

State the study dependent variable and the independent variable.

6. Descriptive Statistics

Run frequency distributions/summary statistics of the dependent and the independent variables, and interpret the results.

7. Statistical analysis

Use appropriate statistical test to test the null hypothesis

Interpret the findings and draw your conclusion.

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