1. Find a recent news article (something published less than three months ago) that describes a study in which biostatistics was applied. Make sure find something that will allow to answer the rest of the questions on the assignment. Write the name of the article below:
2. What was the population of interest in the study that the article describes (e.g., females between the ages of 50 and 80 living in the United States)?
3. How was the data collected for the study (e.g., surveys, interviews, clinic visits)?
4. What variable(s) were collected (e.g., age, gender, disease status, etc.) and what was the level of measurement for each variable (e.g., continuous, dichotomous, ordinal, or categorical)? Use the table below to list the variables and their level of measurement. Add or remove rows as necessary.

Variable	Level of measurement

1. In a couple sentences, summarize the significant findings of the study (e.g., did they find certain risk factors were associated with a particular health outcome? Did they measure the rate of development of a new disease? Did they measure the prevalence of a health condition? Did they find that a new drug was effective in treating a disease?)