4. Suppose a research team is interested in the behavioral ramifications that ma

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4. Suppose a research team is interested in the behavioral ramifications that may develop from women and young girls receiving the HPV vaccine at an early age. The research hypothesis is that women and girls that receive the vaccine are less likely to follow federal recommendations that mandate these women to undergo regular screening for cervical cancer. The research team decides to investigate this relationship by following a group of women and girls aged 12-21 for up to 10 years and observing their behaviors in relation to cervical screening. The team receives a list of women and girls in this age range from their local legislators and divides the group into 4 different age ranges. The team then sampled 100 women and girls from each age range and followed them for the full study period.

A) What type of study design is this?

B) Is there a sampling methodology used, and if so, what kind?

C) What are the exploratory and response variables?

Explanation / Answer

A) Prospective study design

B) stratified sampling

C) explanatory variable is : age and HPV vaccine

Response variable: women and girls aged 12-22

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