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Comprehensive Take-Home Exam STAT 210 (83 pts.) S O L U T I O N S 1 – Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight These data come from a study of infant birth weights. Two of the factors of interest to researchers are maternal smoking during pregnancy and age of the mother and the role these factors might play in the birth weight of the infant. It is believed that smoking mothers and mothers over the age of 35 are at increased risk of having an infant with low birth weight, which is a birth weight below 6 lbs. Data from this study are contained in the file Lowbirthweight.JMP. The variables in the data file are as follows: In Parts (a) – (c) you will examine whether or not women over 35 years of age and women who smoke during pregnancy have a significantly better chance of having an infant with low birth weight. a) Find the following conditional probabilities: (4 pts.) P(LBW=Yes|Over 35 = Yes) =.1186 P(LBW=Yes|Over 35 = No) = .0549 P(LBW=Yes|Smoker = Yes) = .0936 P(LBW=Yes|Smoker=No) = .0341 b) Use the conditional probabilities from part (a) to find the Relative Risk (RR) of having an infant with low birth weight associated with both of these potential risk factors. Give the correct interpretations of both of these RR’s. (4 pts.) RR for smoking mothers = .0936/.0341 = 2.74, smokers are 2.74 times more likely to have an infant with a low birth weight than non-smokers. RR for over 35 mothers = .1148/.0549 = 2.10, mothers over 35 years of age are 2.10 times more likely to have an infant with a low birth weight. 1 – Low Birth Weights (cont’d) c) Use an appropriate inferential method to determine if these two risk factors are statistically significant, specifically test whether or not having the risk factor increases the chance of having a infant with a low birth weight. Summarize your findings including any appropriate computer output you used. (8 pts.) See Fisher’s Exact Test results above. Notation: the proportion of mothers in the p