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Scenario:

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.

1. 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

Discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean.

• What are confidence intervals?
• What is a point estimate?
• What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain.
• Why do we need confidence intervals?

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

• Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
• Construct a95%confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and ? is unknown.
  • Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
• Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

• Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
• Construct a99%confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and ? is unknown.
  • Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
• Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.
• Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence interval.
  • Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Explain.
  • What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain.

Discuss the process for hypothesis testing.

• Discuss the 8 steps of hypothesis testing?
• When performing the 8 steps for hypothesis testing, which method do you prefer; P-Value method or Critical Value method? Why?

Perform the hypothesis test.

• If you selected Option 1:
  • Original Claim: The average salary for all jobs in Minnesota is less than $65,000.
  • Test the claim using ? = 0.05 and assume your data is normally distributed and ? is unknown.
• If you selected Option 2:
  • Original Claim: The average age of all patients admitted to the hospital with infectious diseases is less than 65 years of age.
  • Test the claim using ? = 0.05 and assume your data is normally distributed and ? is unknown.
• Based on your selected topic, answer the following:

1. Write the null and alternative hypothesis symbolically and identify which hypothesis is the claim.
2. Is the test two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed? Explain.
3. Which test statistic will you use for your hypothesis test; z-test or t-test? Explain.
4. What is the value of the test-statistic? What is the P-value?What is the critical value?
5. What is your decision; reject the null or do not reject the null?
   1. Explain why you made your decision including the results for your p-value and the critical value.
6. State the final conclusion in non-technical terms.

Conclusion

• Recap your ideas by summarizing the information presented in context of your chosen scenario.

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