Community Quiz #5

How much money is in your wallet

Value that occurs most often in the distribution

Color of M&M candies

Capitation

Similar to bar graph, but bars are touching, interval or ratio variables

The _______ dental board is responsible for regulating dentistry and dental hygiene

New cases of a disease or condition over a given time period or its progress over time

Extent of disease, injury, or disability in a population (Diagnosed)

A method of ascertaining the way individual variables are located around the mean

Disease occurrence in excess of normal “outbreak” (SARS)

Local

CHIP may finance dental coverage for children whose parents work but have low incomes & don't have health insurance.

Arithmetic average of the group; The sum of all values divided by the number of items

P Value

Used for testing a hypothesis testing when the data meet certain assumptions

Interprets the laws the legislature passes

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship

To become a law, concept (bill) must be reviewed, it may amend (change) it.

Ordinal (Examples include Likert scale, Cancer tumor staging scale, and Difficulty of dental hygiene patient)

Communicates how much variation is present in a group of data; Describes the distribution of data within a study

Non-parametric Statistics: Chi-Square Test

Movie Classifications G, PG, PG13, R,

Federal and local governments jointly finance the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Distribution of a wider spread of scores has a higher measure of dispersion

Ratio (Examples include Blood pressure, Height, Weight, # of teeth, # of sealants, Amount of $ in your pocket)

Encounter Fee Plan

When variable are discrete, sample is small, population distributions are not normal, or groups variances are not equal

Interval (Example includes Fahrenheit measurement)

Parametric statistic used to determine whether significant differences occur when comparing more than two mean scores

Correlation

Research Sources for Dental Care Products

Each state makes (creates) its laws, including licensure and practice of the dental hygienist

Death rate resulting from a specific disease or condition(die from)

Mid-point of data; Point that divides the score distribution into 2 equal parts

All existing cases at a given point in time (viewed as a %)

Type I- alpha α error (Ex: One sealant had a better retention rate than the other, but they had equal retention rates)

For the normal distribution the most occurrences in the world fall into a bell shaped curve

Federal insurance program from trust fund to pay medical bills of all people over 65

Fee-For-Service Plan

Many states fund dental care to the indigent population through Medicaid

Executes, caries out the laws (enforces) passed by legislate

Type II-beta β error(Ex:Retention rates of the two sealants materials did not differ when one had better retention rate)

Medicaid

Boiling temperatures of different liquids

Dental provider & patient negotiate payment by exchanging goods or services without using money & Used in private sector

Epidemic that crosses international borders to affect several countries or continents (HIV/ Flu)

Nominal (Examples include Ethnicity, Religious preference, and Political preference)

The bigger the range or ‘standard deviation’, the wider the distribution curve

The square root of variance

State governments generally fund dental services for inmates of state prisons and detention centers.

(UCR) Customary

(UCR) Reasonable

(UCR) Usual

The federal government does not play a major role in governing the dental hygiene practice

Constant presence of a disease – (Malaria in tropical country)