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    closely. In the past‚ 15% of the parts produced would be defective. The manager wants to determine the proportion of parts currently produced that are defective. What is the minimum sample size he should take so that at 95% confidence the margin of error will not be more than 0.08? a. 77 b. 102 c. 139 d. 185 2. A department store is considering a new credit policy to try to reduce the number of customers defaulting on payments. A suggestion is made to discontinue credit to any customer who

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    ANALYSIS……………………….. 14 Introduction Medication discrepancies are explained to be the ‘unsolved differences between regimens patients think they should be taking and those ordered by their physicians across different sites of care’ (Schnipper‚ 2006). Unfortunately medication discrepancies are said to be common occurrence‚ especially after hospitalizations‚ and are a frequent cause of adverse events (ADE’s). A study published in 2006 revealed that medication discrepancies were found to be the cause

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    Scatterplots 4 Pearson’s Correlation 4 Spearman’s Rho 4 Probability 4 Binomial Distribution 4 Assumptions: 5 Subjective Probability 5 Normal Distribution 5 Standard Normal Distribution 5 Sampling Distribution 5 Standard Error of Statistic 5 Central Limit Theorem 5 Area under the Sampling Distribution of the Mean 6 Sampling Distribution‚ Difference between Independent means 6 Sampling Distribution of a Linear Combination of Means 6 Sampling Distribution of Pearson’s

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    Skills Notes (3/10/11) Parenteral Medications *absorbed more quickly than oral meds *b/c injections are invasive; aseptic technique must be used! Injections: 1. Intradermally- ID 2. Intramuscularly- IM 3. Intravenously- IV 4. Subcutaneously- SubQ 1. Intradermal Injections(ID)- the administration of a drug into the dermal layer of the skin just beneath the epidermis. * Frequently used for allergy testing and tuberculosis (TB‚ aka PPD) screening. * Common Sites:

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    Normal(88.532‚5.07943) Normal(97.1033‚5.04488) Normal(107.15‚5.15367) Summary Statistics Mean 88.532 Std Dev 5.0794269 Std Err Mean 0.2271589 Upper 95% Mean 88.978306 Lower 95% Mean 88.085694 N 500 Sum 44266 Summary Statistics Mean 97.103333 Std Dev 5.0448811 Std Err Mean 0.2912663 Upper 95% Mean 97.676525 Lower 95% Mean 96.530142 N 300 Sum 29131 Summary Statistics Mean 107.15 Std Dev 5.1536687 Std Err Mean

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    MAT 300 M&Ms® Project Report (120 pts) A template report file can be found in the course shell: mnmprojectreport.doc. Before your write your report‚ watch the video titled “mnmunwrapped.wmv” located in the course shell. It is a 3:30-minute video segment from the TV show “Unwrapped‚” showing many parts of the production process‚ which might give you some ideas. Ignore the color percentages quoted in the segment. Imagine you are a quality control manager at the Masterfoods plant. Write a two

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    Statistics is the study of the collection‚ organization‚ analysis‚ interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Descriptive statistics is the discipline of quantitatively describing the main features of a collection of information‚ or the quantitative description itself. Descriptive statistics are distinguished from inferential statistics (or inductive statistics)‚ in that

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    vital statistics of populations studied probability through games of chance‚ gambling | 18th Century | Laplace‚ Gauss | normal curve‚ regression through study of astronomy | 19th Century | Quetelet Galton | astronomer who first applied statistical analyses to human biologystudied genetic variation in humans(used regression and correlation) | 20th Century (early) | PearsonGossett (Student) Fisher | studied natural selection using correlation‚ formed first academic department of statistics‚ Biometrika

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    for correcting errors in this prescription process is data that outlines where the majority of the errors occur. There are a wide variety of possibilities and errors that can occur in the prescription process‚ therefore having data that helps to pinpoint where most issues occur would be very helpful. Once it is understood where the majority of the errors occur‚ analysis can be done and solutions can be analyzed to fix the problem area(s). As seen on the Medication ErrorsError Reporting pie chart

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    relevant to the administration of medication. The Medicines Acts 1968 and various amendments cover the legal management of medication. While care staffs are not expected to have detailed knowledge of the legislation‚ they do need to be aware of the legal difference between types of drugs and the legal framework that allows them to handle medicines on behalf of the service user. The following is a list of legislation that has a direct impact upon the handling of medication within a social care setting

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