Question

A research team from Hospital XXX is interested to study on the effect of obesity (measured using BMI) towards diabetes disease among the patients. As per recorded, the hospital has a total of 1200 patients diagnosed with three different diabetes disease categories which are Mild, Moderate or Severe, given that each category comprised of 400, 550 and 250 patients, respectively. A sample of 230 patients is selected at random.

a) State the population of the study. (1 mark)

b) Suggest a sampling technique that is suitable for the study. Explain.

(2marks)

c) State the variable of interest for the study. Hence, identify its type and level of

measurement.

Answer 1