1.

Regarding discrete quantitative variables:

a) The frequency distribution can be obtained directly by counting how many
times each value appears
b) The variables values are always in order
c) They can be graphically represented using a histogram
d) They are the result of a measurement or are obtained by counting

2. 90% confidence intervals:
a) Are narrower than 95% intervals
b) Have a 5% probability of not containing the real population value
c) Can potentially be computed in different ways, depending on the problem
d) Contains values for all healthy subjects
3. Estimating of data variability can be done with:
a) Standard deviation
b) Range
c) Variance
d) Mode
4. The WWW acronym is found in:
a) The extension of files that can be viewed on the Internet
b) The extension of the browser used to view web pages
c) The address of certain data stored in a web page
d) The web page access syntax
5. The following statements about the Z scale are true:
a) It allows efficient presenting of results
b) Scores from all scales can be converted to a score on the Z scale
c) It is standard scale in statistics
d) It can be used to estimate the relative risk in a control case study
6. The following can be associated with the cloud computing term:
a) Distributed group of computing services
b) Distributed group of applications
c) Distributed group for data storage
d) The user can have access to the systems configuration
7. HIS - Hospital Information System includes functionality for:
a) Patient management in hospitals or clinics
b) The security of the data system
c) Managing lab tests
d) Managing patient-related costs

8. The majority of medical data follow:

a) Positively skewed distribution
b) Unimodal distributions
c) Symmetrical distribution
d) Multimodal distribution
9. The p value is:
a) The end result of hypothesis testing
b) The probability of the null hypothesis
c) Not the probability that the null hypothesis is true
d) Shows strong evidence to reject the null hypothesis if it has a value
between 0.1 and 0.5

10. The standard error:
a) Is used to state how close the computed statistical value is to the real value
b) Increases with the sample size
c) Is the standard deviation of the sample distribution
d) Shows the degree to which sampled individuals differ from the sample
mean
11. A statistically significant difference:
a) Is always obtained when the p value is less than 0.05
b) Is always very important
c) Happens if the data is not consistent with the null hypothesis
d) Is sometimes called the beta value
12. The following are true about linear regression:
a) The intercept and the slope are always equal
b) It is an equation of a straight line
c) It is recommended to be used when there exist 10 variables and 50 samples
o data, which follow a normal distribution
d) The expression result is the outcome or dependent variable.
13. The following statements are true about DICOM:
a) It is a standard for managing data obtained through medical imaging
b) It includes a communication protocol
c) It includes a definition of data format
d) It is a module in HIS

14. The correlation coefficient:

a) Can have values greater than 1 and lower than -1
b) Is sometimes called the Pearson's correlation coefficient
c) Measures the direction of a linear relation
d) Is negative when small values of a variable are associated to high values of
another variable
15. Personal Health Record is:
a) An information system for hospitals
b) A standard for storing files containing personal data
c) An application for remote monitoring of patients
d) An application through which patients can securely and confidentially
access, manage and share their health information

16. The following applications are used for statistically analysing data:
a) EpiInfo
b) Statistica
c) MS Excel
d) MS Access
17. A Students t-test:
a) Can be applied only if the sampled data follow a Students t-distribution
b) Has a statistics that follows a Students t-distribution
c) Can be represented using a graphical representation of normality
d) Can be applied to small sample sizes

For each question, the answer choices are:

A: a, b, and c are true, but d is false
B: a and c are true, but b and d are false
C: b and d are true, but a and c are false
D: only d is true
E: all of a, b, c, and d are true