A Statistical Analysis on the Effect of Bad Health Habits in two Continents (Africa and Europe)
Ogonna A. Ndubuisi *
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Uchenna P. Ogoke
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This research work focuses on determining the difference between the health habits of countries in Africa and Europe, especially in females. It is crucial because it could help enlighten women on the dangers of bad health habits. Multivariate Hotelling T- square test is adopted to determine the significant difference between the two continents, Africa and Europe, having Cancer deaths caused by alcohol consumption, smoking prevalence, and Obesity prevalence as the variables and the correlation between the variables. The result showed that there is indeed a significant difference between the bad health habits in the two continents in the females. Correlation analysis was also carried out to determine the relationship between the variables, and the results showed that the relationship between the variables was little. More methods were adopted using comparison of Rate between the means, and the sum of the same variables, to determine which continent was more affected by the bad health habits, and it was figured out to be Europe.
Keywords: Multivariate hotelling T- square test, bad health habit, obesity, correlation