Description
You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager, and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely at the ages of these patients.
You do some research and put together a spreadsheet Click for more options
of the data that contains the following information:
Client number
Infection disease status
Age of the patient
You are to put together a PowerPoint presentation that explains the analysis of your findings which you will submit to your manager. The presentation should contain all components of your findings. For review, the components of the report should include:
Brief overview of the scenario and variables in the data set
Discussion, calculation, and interpretation of the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and variance
Discussion, construction, and interpretation of the 95% confidence interval
Explanation of the full hypothesis test
Conclusion
The calculations should be performed in your spreadsheet that you will also submit to your manager. You can find additional information on what to add to your PowerPoint presentation in this Word document Click for more options
. Use the questions in the worksheet as your guide for the contents of your presentation.
For your final deliverable, submit your PowerPoint presentation and the Excel workbook showing your calculations with the excel functions on the excel file. Do not submit your Word document.
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Deliverable 7 – Statistical
Analysis Report
Student’s Name
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Overview
• In this case, we are given a scenario from a hospital, focusing on the
Infectious Diseases Unit.
• Our problem is the onset of a possible epidemic, where we need to
intervene as quickly as possible to solve the cases efficiently for the
benefit of the patient, and besides that, we have to investigate if the
cases belong to our department or not.
• The main concern we have after establishing the diagnosis is to find
the most effective treatment. In this case, we have to deal with
patients aged between 41 and 84 years and we are interested in the
age differences between them in choosing the right treatment.
Classification
• In this data set, we have "Patient #" and "Age" as quantitative variables,
because they comprise different numbers, and only numbers. Regarding
the "Infectious Disease" column, we can tell that these are qualitative
variables, because there can only be "Yes" or "No" and you can't count this
type of data.
• The discrete variable in our data set is "Infectious Disease", because it can
only take two dis...