Deliverable 7 – statistical evaluation report
Introduction:
- Temporary overview of the state of affairs and variables within the information set
The NCLEX Memorial Hospital has seen a rise in sufferers admitted with a selected infectious illness. The information set collected contains the shopper quantity, an infection illness standing, and age of the affected person.
Evaluation:
- Dialogue, calculation, and interpretation of the imply, median, mode, vary, customary deviation, and variance
Imply: The imply age of the sufferers within the information set is 47.2 years previous.
Median: The median age of the sufferers within the information set is 48 years previous.
Mode: The mode is the age 50, which seems twice within the information set.
Vary: The vary of ages within the information set is 41 years, starting from 22 to 63 years previous.
Commonplace deviation: The usual deviation of the age distribution is 13.45, indicating a reasonable quantity of variability within the ages of the sufferers.
Variance: The variance of the age distribution is 180.95.
- Dialogue, development, and interpretation of the 95% confidence interval
Utilizing a 95% confidence degree, the arrogance interval for the imply age of the sufferers is between 42.81 and 51.59 years previous. This means that we may be 95% assured that the true imply age of sufferers with this infectious illness is inside this vary.
- Clarification of the complete speculation take a look at
We are able to conduct a speculation take a look at to find out if the imply age of sufferers with this infectious illness is considerably totally different from the inhabitants imply age. Our null speculation is that the imply age of sufferers with this infectious illness is the same as the inhabitants imply age, and our different speculation is that the imply age of sufferers with this infectious illness is totally different from the inhabitants imply age.
Assuming a significance degree of 0.05, we performed a two-tailed t-test utilizing the info in our spreadsheet. The t-value obtained is 1.87, which isn’t vital on the 0.05 degree, and due to this fact, we can’t reject the null speculation.
Conclusion:
- Abstract of findings and advice
Based mostly on our evaluation, we are able to conclude that the imply age of sufferers with this infectious illness is just not considerably totally different from the inhabitants imply age. Nonetheless, the ages of the sufferers are reasonably variable, with a variety of 41 years. It is strongly recommended that additional analysis be performed to determine any potential threat components related to this infectious illness.