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3.24Â Â Â Â Â Does the month in which you were born relate to your later mental health? Fombonne (1989) took all children referred to a psychiatric clinic in Paris with a diagnosis of psychosis and sorted them by birth month. (There were 208 such children.) He had a control group of 1,040 children referred with other problems. The data are given below, along with the percentage in the general population born in that month.
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Total |
|
Psychosis |
13 |
12 |
16 |
18 |
21 |
18 |
15 |
14 |
13 |
19 |
21 |
28 |
208 |
|
Control % General Population |
83 Â 8.4 |
71 Â 7.8 |
88 Â 8.7 |
114 Â 8.6 |
86 Â 9.1 |
93 Â 8.5 |
87 Â 8.7 |
70 Â 8.3 |
83 Â 8.1 |
80 Â 8.1 |
97 Â 7.6 |
88 Â 8.0 |
1040 |
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(a)   How will you adjust (transform) the Psychosis and Control groups’ data so that all three data sets can fit on the same graph?
(b)Â Â Â How will you plot the data?
(c)Â Â Â Plot the data.
(d)Â Â Â Do those diagnosed with psychosis appear to differ from the general population?
(e)Â Â Â What purpose does the Control group play? (f ) What do you conclude?
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