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Preventive & Social Medicine (Community Medicine) is a difficult branch to understand ... leave alone the aspect of liking it. Nonetheless, it is an important overarching medical subject encompassing clinical medicine, human behaviour, environment and many more.
Many students keep asking me a lot of exam questions again and again. The aim of this blog is to answer various queries and difficult concepts pertaining to this subject.
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

None of the following methods can show relationship between two variables except ?



a)      Histogram
b)      Line diagram
c)       Bar chart
d)      Scatter plot
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Ans: d

 Scatter plot can be used to reveal relationships between 2 quantitative variables. The hypothesized exposure variable (cause or independent variable) is plotted on X axis and the effect variable (dependent variable) is plotted on Y axis. A dot or point is plotted for each pair of observations. If the dots of all the observations fall along a line (or a curve), we could conclude that there is a correlation between the 2 variables.

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