As a healthcare professional, you will work to improve and maintain the health of individuals, families, and communities in various settings. Basic statistical analysis can be used to gain an understanding of current problems. Understanding the current situation is the first step in discovering where an opportunity for improvement exists. This project will assist you in applying basic statistical principles to a fictional scenario in order to impact the health and wellbeing of the clients being served.
You are currently working at Grady 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 of the data that contains the following information:
• Client number
• Infection Disease Status
• Age of the patient
You need the preliminary findings immediately so that you can start treating these patients. So let’s get to work!!!!
The data set consists of 60 patients that have the infectious disease with ages ranging from 35 years of age to 76 years of age for Grady Memorial Hospital.
INSTRUCTIONS;
Review the scenario and data set carefully Begin Phase 1 of your analysis by including the following information:
- Introduce your scenario and data set.
-Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.
-Classify the variables in your data set.
Which variables are quantitative/qualitative?
Which variables are discrete/continuous?
Describe the level of measurement for each variable included in your data set. - Discuss the importance of the Measures of Center and the Measures of Variation.
• What are the measures of center and why are they important?
• What are the measures of variation and why are they important? - Calculate the measures of center and measures of variation. Interpret your results in context of the selected topic.
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Midrange
• Range
• Variance
• Standard Deviation
Sample Solution
