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Review Question - QID 4506

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QID 4506 (Type "4506" in App Search)
While conducting a retrospective review of patients undergoing two different techniques for open reduction and internal fixation of ankle fractures, the investigator would like to assess whether there is any significant difference between the mean patient age in the two groups. The two groups are normally distributed. Which of the following tests would be most appropriate?

Student t-test

68%

2395/3506

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

12%

407/3506

Fisher exact test

4%

124/3506

Kruskal-Wallis test

1%

28/3506

Chi-square test

15%

526/3506

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A Student-test would be the most appropriate test for analyzing means of parametric (continuous) variables that are normally distributed between two groups.

Data can be characterized as non-parametric (categorical, ordinal) or parametric (continuous). Parametric data, such as age, are observations for which difference between the numbers have meaning on a numerical scale. Non-parametric data are observations which can be expressed as a dichotomous (yes or no) outcome such as gender.

Kocher and Zurakowski present a Level 5 review of epidemiology and biostatistics. The authors state that univariate or bivariate analysis, such as the student t-test, is used to assess the relationship of a single independent and a single dependent variable.

Incorrect Answers:
Answer 2: Analysis of variance is used to evaluate means of parametric data between three or more groups when the data is normally distributed
Answer 3: Fisher exact test is used to compare proportions for non-parametric data when the expected frequency is small (less than five per group)
Answer 4: Kruskal-Wallis test is used to evaluate medians of three or more groups when the data are not normally distributed.
Answer 5: Chi-square test is used to compare proportions for categorical or ordinal data (non-parametric)

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