Statistical Methods in Public Health

Flashcards covering statistical methods in public health, including ANOVA, correlation, regression, confidence intervals, chi-square tests, non-parametric tests, and odds ratios.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical method used to compare the means of two or more groups.

Pearson’s Correlation

A measure of the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one independent variable.

Multiple Linear Regression

A statistical method used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and two or more independent variables.

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is likely to contain the true value of a population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

Chi-square test of independence

A statistical test used to examine the association between two categorical variables in a contingency table.

Non-parametric test

A type of statistical test that does not assume that the data follow a specific distribution.

Odds

The ratio of the probability of an event occurring to the probability of the event not occurring.

Odds Ratio

The ratio of two odds; it compares the odds of an event occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group.

Coefficient of Determination (R-squared)

The proportion of variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).