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You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past...

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 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!!!!

Background information on the Data:

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 NCLEX Memorial Hospital. Remember this assignment will be completed over the duration of the course.

Patient # Infectious Disease Age
1 Yes 69
2 Yes 35
3 Yes 60
4 Yes 55
5 Yes 49
6 Yes 60
7 Yes 72
8 Yes 70
9 Yes 70
10 Yes 73
11 Yes 68
12 Yes 72
13 Yes 74
14 Yes 69
15 Yes 46
16 Yes 48
17 Yes 70
18 Yes 55
19 Yes 49
20 Yes 60
21 Yes 72
22 Yes 70
23 Yes 76
24 Yes 56
25 Yes 59
26 Yes 64
27 Yes 71
28 Yes 69
29 Yes 55
30 Yes 61
31 Yes 70
32 Yes 55
33 Yes 45
34 Yes 69
35 Yes 54
36 Yes 48
37 Yes 60
38 Yes 61
39 Yes 50
40 Yes 59
41 Yes 60
42 Yes 62
43 Yes 63
44 Yes 53
45 Yes 64
46 Yes 50
47 Yes 69
48 Yes 52
49 Yes 68
50 Yes 70
51 Yes 69
52 Yes 59
53 Yes 58
54 Yes 69
55 Yes 65
56 Yes 61
57 Yes 59
58 Yes 71
59 Yes 71
60 Yes 68

5. What is the P-value? Explain how you determined it.

6. What is the critical value? Explain how you calulated it.

7. What is your decision? Reject the null or do not reject the null? Explain why you made your decision including the results for your p-value and the critical value.

8. State the final conclusion in non-technical terms.

Please show your work for the construction of the test-statistic and explain your process for finding the p-value and critical value. You may use the Equation Editor to format your calculation steps on the Word document or attach an Excel spreadsheet clearly showing each calculation for #B4 and #B5, but your answers still need to appear on the Word document. Also, be sure to number each response in your paper using the same numbers as above

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