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Advanced Statistics and Analytics

Introduction:

As a healthcare professional, you will work to improve and maintain the health of individuals, families, and communities in various settings. Basic statistical analysis can be used to gain an understanding of current problems. Understanding the current situation is the first step in discovering where an opportunity for improvement exists. This course project will assist you in applying basic statistical principles to a fictional scenario in order to impact the health and wellbeing of the clients being served.

This assignment will be completed in phases throughout the quarter. As you gain additional knowledge through the didactic portion of this course, you will be able to apply your new knowledge to this project. You will receive formative feedback from your instructor on each submission. The final project will be due on week 10.

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.

Review each scenario and data set carefully and choose which scenario you would like to work with. Begin Phase 1 of your analysis by including the following information:

Option 2 allows you to analyze the ages of infectious disease patients at NCLEX Memorial Hospital.

1. Introduce your scenario and data set.

o Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.

o Describe the variables in your data set.
 Are the variables quantitative or qualitative? Explain.
 Are the variables discrete or continuous? Explain

2. Calculate the measures of center and measures of variation. (Calculate these using Excel and then copy the results from Excel into your Word Document) 30 Points

Mean
Median
Mode
Range
Variance
Standard Deviation

3. Conclusion

Recap your ideas by summarizing the information presented.

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