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

Data Set:

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

The question is:

Your analysis of this data set should include the following:

1. Introduce your scenario and data set.
2. Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.
3. Classify the variables in your data set.

1)Which variables are quantitative/qualitative?

2)Which variables are discrete/continuous?

3)Describe the level of measurement for each variable included in your data set.

1. Summarize and graph your data.
2. Choosing one of the quantitative variables from your data set, construct a frequency distribution that has a minimum of 5 classes (please do not include more than 10 classes). The frequency distribution should contain the following columns:

1)Lower and Upper Class Limits

2)Frequencies

3)Class Boundaries

4)Midpoints

5)Relative Frequencies

6)Cumulative Frequencies

1. Interpret the results of your frequency distribution in context of your chosen scenario.
2. Using the same variable from your frequency distribution, construct a histogram.

1)Summarize the results of your histogram.

a)Discuss the construction of your histogram.

oWhat values were used on the horizontal and vertical axes?

oWhat does the height of the bars represent?

oWhat is the shape of the distribution?

b)Interpret the results of your histogram in context of your chosen scenario.

1. Conclusion
2. Recap your ideas by summarizing the information presented.