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After reviewing his baseline data, Fred was made aware of his handwashing behavior. His social worker implemented an intervention to try and curtail the behavior.
After reviewing his baseline data, Fred was made aware of his handwashing behavior. His social worker implemented an intervention to try and curtail the behavior. Fred has continued recording the number of times he washes his hands daily. After several weeks, the social worker is trying to determine how effective the intervention is.
Use the Fred data set Download Fred data set, and SSDforR to complete this analysis for each of the variables:
- Report the number of observations in each phase, an appropriate measure of central tendency, and, if using the mean, report the standard deviation.
- Explain your box plot.
- Make a line graph and label it with a measure of central tendency in each phase. Set an appropriate goal and denote that on the graph.
- Overall, with the goal in mind, what would you do to analyze what you see in order to determine whether Fred is improving now. Identified goal for Fred and an explanation of whether or not Fred is improving.
Fred's Data Set
thoughts pthoughts hands phands 20 A 25 A 15 A 33 A 10 A 60 A 12 A 25 A 27 A 27 A 45 A 31 A 36 A NA NA NA NA 27 B 10 B 16 B 20 B 24 B 7 B 31 B 22 B 19 B 15 B 22 B 9 B 18 B 12 B 17 B 7 B 22 B 11 B 10 B 14 B 21 B
Freds line Graph* Juist need explanation on whats happening with the intervention