Class Exercise on Statistical Analysis
PM 536
December 3, 2020
This exercise is review for choosing the appropriate statistical procedures and tests. For each
question below write the appropriate statistical test and any transformations or other procedures
needed to conduct the analysis. Then write a sentence describing the result.
1) The association between gender (1=male 2=female) and MPH program track (1=Bio/Epi,
2=HC, 3=HP, & 4=Nutrition).
2) The association between gender (1=male 2=female) and MPH program track (midterm exam
score). Which variable is independent and which dependent?
3) The association between gender (1=male 2=female) and interest in football rated as low,
medium and high.
4) Whether attitude toward contraception, measured as a 7 item likert scale (alpha=.75) increased
significantly between baseline and follow up among a two-wave panel sample of 1,000 randomly
selected respondents?
5) In (4) above, how would you test whether it increased differently for men and women?
6) In (5) above, how would you test whether a media campaign was associated with changes in
attitudes assuming you had a variable which asked whether respondents had seen or heard the
campaign?
7) In (6) above, how would you test whether the media campaign was more effective among
women than men?
