Answer:
Relative frequencies:
Headaches = 23.55 %
Hypertension = 8.68%
Upper respiratory tract infections =24.79%
Nasopharyngitis = 21.07
Diarrhea = 21.09%
None of these adverse reactions appear to be much more common than the others.
Explanation:
Compute frequency:
The number of adverse reactions categories:
Headaches
Hypertension
Upper respiratory tract infections
Nasopharyngitis
Diarrhea
Frequency of each adverse reaction:
Adverse reaction Frequency
Headaches 57
Hypertension 21
Upper respiratory tract infections 60
Nasopharyngitis 51
Diarrhea 53
Compute total frequency
Total frequency is compute dby taking sum of all frequencies;
Sum of frequencies = 57 + 21 + 60 + 51 + 53
= 242
Compute relative frequency:
In order to find if any one of these adverse reactions appear to be much more common than the others, we have to compute relative frequency using these adverse reactions.
By calculating relative frequency we are looking at the number of times a specific adverse reaction appears to be more common, compared to the others.
To calculate relative frequency, divide the frequency of each adverse reaction by the total frequency i.e. 242.
Relative frequency for Headache = 57 / 242
= 0.2355
= 23.55 %
Relative frequency for Hypertension = 21 / 242
= 0.0868
= 8.68 %
Relative frequency for Upper respiratory tract infections = 60 / 242
= 0.2497
= 24.97 %
Relative frequency for Nasopharyngitis = 51 / 242
= 0.2107
= 21.07 %
Relative frequency for Diarrhea = 53 / 242
= 0.2190
= 21.90 %
If you observe the relative frequencies of all the adverse reactions, none of them appear to be much more common than the others. Relative frequencies of headaches, upper respiratory tract infections, nasopharyngitis and diarrhea are almost equally common however, relative of hypertension appears to be very less than the other three.