Fundamentals of Biostatistics
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ISBN: 9781305268920
Author: Bernard Rosner
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 129P
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Find the overall 1-year cumulative incidence among Caucasian women ages 50–74 for the time period 2001–2006.
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Motorcycle driver
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Tornado
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The table below shows the number of deaths in the U.S. in a year due to a variety of causes. For these questions, assume these values are not changing from year to year, and that the population of the United States is 312 million people.
Cause
Deaths
Passenger car occupant
13,100
Motorcycle driver
4,500
Tornado
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Skydiving
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h) People sometimes claim motorcycle riding is less dangerous than driving. Does the data support this claim? What additional information and/or calculations would be useful to evaluate this claim?
The following data were collected in the study described in Problem 1 relating hypertensive status measured at baseline to incident stroke over 5 years.
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