Biostatistics and Epidemiology Quiz

What does the data represent?

What is the goal of the study?

Are the data from a source with a special interest so that there is pressure to obtain results that are favorable to the source?

Were the data collected in a way that is unbiased, or were the data collected in a way that is biased?

Are there any outliers (numbers very far away from almost all other data)?

What important statistics summarize the data (such as the mean and standard deviation)?

How are the data distributed?

Are there missing data?

Did many selected subjects refuse to respond?

Do the results have statistical significance?