Statistical Significance Eric G Peppers HCS/438 Statistical Applications October 8‚ 2012 Gerald Rintala Statistical Significance Identification of a statistic as being significant is more difficult than the novice statistician may at first understand. At the most rudimentary definition‚ a significant finding simply means the statistic is reliable. This term states how convinced you are that a relationship or difference may exist. Bennett‚ et al states‚ “we determine statistical
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Chart/Graph Paper Kelly Preskorn HCS/438 Statistical Applications October 12‚ 2010 Lynn Bertsch Chart/Graph Paper “Data are summarized in a visual way using charts and graphs (Rumsey‚ 2010).” Some of the basic graphs used include pie charts‚ bar charts‚ and histograms. Pie charts used more for percentages‚ bar charts used to compare groups and histograms to show numerical data. Pie charts take data that is categorized and shows percentages or individuals that can be placed into
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Eating Fish and Eye Disease Sandra Hall HCS/438 March 21‚ 2011 Curtis Ramsey Eating Fish and Eye Disease The New York Times has reported that eating fish in a regular diet has more benefits. The article explains that the Harvard Women’s Health study says people that eat fish once a week had a 42 percent less likelihood to develop macular degeneration that was age related than people that ate fish less than once a month. Macular degeneration is an inflammatory disease and fish has
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Surgery‚ 13‚ 438-475. 8. Baer WS. Sacro-iliac joint—arthritis deformans—viable antiseptic in chronic osteomyelitis. Proc Int Assembly Interstate Postgrad Med Assoc North Am; 1929. pp. 365–372. 9. Baer WS. The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with the maggot (larva of the blow fly) J Bone Joint Surg. 1931;13:438–475. 11. Horn KL‚ Cobb AH‚ Jr‚ Gates GA. Maggot therapy for subacute mastoiditis. Arch Otolaryngol. 1976;102(6):377–379 78. Van der Plas MJ‚ Jukema GN‚ Wai SW‚ Dogterom-Ballering HC‚ Lagendijk
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STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS HCS/438 June 10‚ 2013 Instructor: BRENT THAYNE As a registered nurse in the management role‚ I see the every day uses of statistics in my workplace. The healthcare industry use statistics to benefit from knowing consumer market characteristics such as age‚ sex‚ race‚ disabilities and utilize this data to provide affordable levels of care to the population it serves. An example‚ living in San
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Running head: ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Analysis of Newspaper Article LaToya L. Allen‚ RN HCS 438: Statistical Applications University of Phoenix Saran Wilkins‚ PhD September 15‚ 2006 Analysis of Newspaper Article Exercising daily is beneficial to a person ’s health. While many people exercise for this reason‚ they are seeking methods to improve endurance and performance. In an attempt to offer durability and better endurance‚ sports drink manufacturers have started to add
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Analysis of Newspaper Research Report Results Melissa Ruiz HCS/438 Statistical Applications Dodie Fankhauser December 2‚ 2011 When analyzing a research report it is necessary to understand its purpose. Research is finding out what is not already known about the subject. There are two basic purposes for research to learn and to gather evidence. Statistics helps understand how to collect‚ organize‚ and interpret numbers or other information about some topic (Bennett‚ Briggs‚ & Triola
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Visual Data Displays and Uses in Decision Making Ronya Bentz‚ Lasondra Defreeze‚ Terri Dougherty‚ Grace Zhao HCS/438 September 24‚ 2012 Gerald Rintals Visual Data Displays and Uses in Decision Making Studying the measures of central tendency will help to verify if these measures of central tendency for the given data are correct. The information will assist in predicting specific health issues and interventions needed to improve health care. The measure of variation produces
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Accountability inside the health care industry S.Thomas University of Phoenix Leadership and Performance Development HCS/475 Paula Smith March 25‚ 2010 Accountability inside the health care industry Accountability by definition can best be described as “the perception of being held answerable for one’s actions or decisions” (Gelfand‚ Lim‚ and Raver‚ 2004‚ pg. 138). Unfortunately‚ for some Americans the terms “accountability” or “accountability standards” appear to be nothing more than
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Health Care Marketing Analysis: Prenatal Clinic Carmela West HCS 539 September 17‚ 2012 Beth Athanassiades Health Care Marketing Analysis: Prenatal Clinic The description of the product‚ price‚ place‚ and promotion will help provide the prenatal clinic with a marketing strategy that will result in its success. It is important to comprehend the importance of the four Ps. The examination of the relationship between the prenatal clinics’ marketing and partnerships can provide a better
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