DO NOT USE AS EXAMPLES THOSE PROVIDED IN THE TEXTBOOK. This exercise will serve

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DO NOT USE AS EXAMPLES THOSE PROVIDED IN THE TEXTBOOK. This exercise will serve as a foundation for a future DB, so make sure you understand it thoroughly. The diseases you select for your examples can be infectious or chronic for this exercise. What is meant by cross-tabulation? Do any of the tables in the chapter use it? State which ones. Why is place an important variable to study in descriptive epidemiology? Give an example of how "place" can play a role in a disease in descriptive epidemiology Why is person an important variable to study in descriptive epidemiology? (relate place to a specific disease). Give an example of how "person" can play a role in a disease in descriptive epidemiology (relate place to a specific disease). Why is time an important variable to study in descriptive epidemiology? (relate place to a specific disease). Give an example of how "time" can play a role in a disease in descriptive epidemiology (relate place to a specific disease).

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1). Cross tabulation is a statistical method in which a list of data is converted into tabular form for easy data analysis. When the research data or any other data set is cross tabulated, it appears like a table. So that the data is converted into numerical form. Thus, by cross tabulation, the non-numerical data is converted into numerical data.

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