A case-control study was conducted to study if the education level of a mother at childbirth was related to eating disorders in their daughters.

A case-control study was conducted to study if the education level of a mother at childbirth was related to eating disorders in their daughters. The study identified 60 daughters with eating disorders and 140 daughters without eating disorders who were matched to the cases on age. Information on maternal education was identified from the birth certificates of the daughters. Results from the study are presented in the following table. Consider maternal education less than high school graduate as the reference group for the analysis. Mother’s education at Number of daughters Number of daughters childbirth developing eating without eating disorders by age 15 disorders Post-graduate study 6 18 College graduate 22 58 High school graduate 21 38 Did not finish high 11 26 school What relative measure of association is most appropriate to use in this study? Describe why. What is the frequency of eating disorders in daughters of mothers who were college graduates (but no higher education) in this study[i.e. identify and calculate the appropriate measure of disease frequency for this group]? Compute the appropriate relative measure of association to evaluate the hypothesis that maternal education is related to eating disorders in their daughters? [i.e. calculate the measure of association pertinent to each education group] Overall, what do the findings from this study suggest? [i.e., interpret the findings].