HED 296 Professor Shneyderman Homework 5 1. You are doing your dissertation and you have been collecting data with BMCC students about whether they develop depression during their time at school and possible risk factors for depression. You recruited 100 students when they first started school. You then gave them a survey every 6 months for 2 years. a. What kind of study is this? b. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this type of study? C. You had 34 Black students, 45 Hispanic students and the rest were White. What kind of variable is race/ethnicity? d. Among your Black students, 8 developed depression at the end of year 3. Among your Hispanic students, 10 developed depression and among your White students, 2 developed depression. Construct a 3 x 2 table with these results. e. What is the appropriate measure of disease frequency in this study? f. Assume no one dropped out. Calculate the disease frequency of each racial/ethnic category. g. Is being Black a risk for developing depression? Calculate the appropriate measure, comparing Black students to White students. h. Is being Hispanic a risk for developing depression? Calculate the appropriate measure, comparing Hispanic students to White students