What are vital statistics? What are health statistics? What do
think the important differences between vital statistics and health
statistics are? Why are maternal and neonatal mortality important
indicators of the health of a population? What does DALY stand for
and why is this statistic used? What is the general relationship
between population health and economic development (describe the
graph of life expectancy and GDP per capita or neonatal mortality
and GDP per capita)?
What is descriptive statistics?
What is inferential statistics?
Why do we care about the level of measurement of a variable?
Why do we use n-1 rather than n in calculating sample
variance?
What are confounding variables, and what effect do they have on
assessing cause-and-effect relationships?
When would you prefer median to mean as a measure of central
tendency?
Why don’t we just sum the deviations from the mean to measure
dispersion of a variable?
When is it legitimate to...
What is the primary purpose of inferential statistics? How might
inferential statistics be spplied to the effectiveness of physicsl
activity in the workplace
Analyze the use of statistics in health care. What are ways in
which statistics could be incorporated into the field of nursing?
Are there ways to improve processes or patient care using these
techniques (related to statistics)? Give specific examples and
suggestions. Add reference.
what is the difference between descriptive and inferential
statistics? Think about the statistics behind a credit score - is
that descriptive or inferential?
When and way the following statistics methods are used, What
type of test statistics can be used for hypothesis testing, explain
in detail and provide Example for each.
Population means, independent sample
Population Means, Related Samples
Population Variances, Two-Sample
Multiple regression.
Is there a difference between community college statistics
students and university statistics students in what technology they
use on their homework? Of the randomly selected community college
students 67 used a computer, 86 used a calculator with built in
statistics functions, and 22 used a table from the textbook. Of the
randomly selected university students 40 used a computer, 88 used a
calculator with built in statistics functions, and 39 used a table
from the textbook. Conduct the appropriate hypothesis...