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Medical Statistics,how to choose your statistical test, statistical tests using SPSS program ,Research design ,sample size calculation
Demonstrator in Biomedical informatics &Medical Statistics department ,Alexandria university
Medical Research Institute,Alexandria university Egypt
B.Sc. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,Alexandria university candidate for Master degree in Medical Statistics
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hi, Mann-Whitney test used to compare quantitative not normally distributed data between 2 groups or when sample size is small. It can be used for both untransformed and untransformed data,but you
hi, 1-first he should do sampling by cluster random sampling i.e.he should consider each of the great lakes as cluster then randomly select from them and then the clusters selected taken as a whole 2-
hi, -to tell if there is statistically significant difference between the mean life expectancies we should do t-test for t-test, we need the mean ,standard deviation,and sample size of the 2 groups
hi, K-S test (kolmogrove-Smirnov test)is a test of normality It is used to explore the distribution of data(if it is normally distributed or not) To do it on SPSS: analyze--descriptive---explore---plots--normality
Hi Dr Tariq, yes, you will use one way ANOVA test if normally distributed data, if the data is not normally distributed we will use Kruskal Wallis test. This for the percentage improvement and for the

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