“Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine”
- Describe a randomized clinical control study or an epidemiological study? Identify at least one pro and one con of that type of study.
- What is the sample size used in the study described in this paper?
- Identify one example of a dependent variable in the study described in this paper.
- Identify one example of an independent variable in the study described in this paper.
- Identify one example of quantitative data listed in Table 1 of this paper.
- Identify one example of qualitative data listed in Table 1 of this paper.
- What type of data is age? Identify all that apply from the following list: binary, continuous, discrete, nominal, ordinal.
- What is one hypothesis that the authors of this paper might have been testing? Do you think they accepted or rejected that hypothesis based on the data shown? (Note: you can answer this question from looking only at the title page, but it may be easier to look at the data shown later in the paper).
- Based on what you’ve read about this paper, what do you think the conclusion or take-home message is of the paper?