Workbook Exercises11 & 16
Grand Canyon University
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Complete Exercises 11 and 16 in Statistics for Health Care Research: A Practical Workbook, and submit as directed by the instructor (e.g., as a Microsoft Word document in the LoudCloud classroom).
In order to receive full credit on calculated answers, please show your work. (Use Word's equation editors, etc., and/or provide a short written description as to how you obtained the final result.)
Exercise 11 (4 points per question) 1. What demographic variables were measured at least at the interval level of measurement?
Age, Income, Length of labor, Return to work, and Number of hours working per week. 2. What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in
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6. What was the marital status mode for the subjects in the experimental and control groups? Provide both the frequency and percentage for the marital status mode for both groups.
The mode for both the experimental and control groups is married with 25 and 78.1% of the experimental group being married and 31 and 86.1% of the control group being married. 7. Could a median be determined for the education data? If so, what would the median be for education for the experimental and the control groups? Provide a rationale for your answer.
For the education data, I must say to calculate the median, from high school to college graduate, the median would be the some college portion since it would be the middle. The median for the experimental group would be 11 and 34.4% and for the control group it would be 15 and 41.7%. 8. Can the findings from this study be generalized to Black women? Provide a rationale for your answer.
No, because the mode in this study shows to be White women. There is only 1 Black woman in the experimental group and none in the control group, therefore statistically, it could not be generalized to Black women. 9. If there were 32 subjects in the experimental group and 36 subjects in the control group, why is the income data only reported for 30 subjects in the experimental group and 34 subjects in the control group?
Because of missing data,
1. For the following scores, find the mean, median, and the mode. Which would be the most appropriate measure for this data set?
3- How would you make it an experimental (rather than correlational) study (it might help to be specific here as well and define the two types of studies in your
This paper will identify and examine the different factors that cause there to be a discrepancy in black and white women’s levels of health. It will then
· How were measures of central tendency used in the study? Did the study use the most appropriate measure of central tendency for the given data? Why or why not?
7. If a study had a result of F(2, 147) = 4.56, p = 0.003, how many groups were in the study, and what was the sample size?
4. Give the mean for the median column of the Worksheet. Is this estimate centered about the parameter of interest (the parameter of interest is the answer for the mean in question 2)
1. The researchers analyzed the data they collected as though it were at what level of measurement?- The correct answer is Interval/ratio.
1. By hand, compute the mean, median, and mode for the following set of 40 reading scores:
The mean for the median column of the worksheet is 3.6Yes, the estimate is centered about the parameter of interest.
The performances of a group of interns are evaluated by their supervisors at the end of their internships.
5) This is also a quasi-experiment because they selected the variables but they can’t really control the outcome of the experiment.
2. _C____ Divide your subjects in half. One group receives one treatment of the independent variable and the other group receives a different treatment of the independent variable. Subjects were all told they were going to see a video of a therapist's session after which they would rate the quality of the session. The groups differed in that the subjects in one group were told that prior evaluations indicated that the therapist was effective whereas subjects in the other group were told that the evaluations indicated the therapist was not effective. These different subjects were used for the two levels of the independent variable: subjects were in either the "effective therapist" or the "ineffective therapist" condition.
a. The study was designed as an experimental research by using independent and dependent variables.
The average dating percentile was twenty-two months. There were three different races included with these participants (Caucasian; 96%, African American; 3%, and other; 1%). In this study, the participants were exposed to different conversations. The researcher wanted to be able to examine more than just one conversation. He wanted to have a variety of different conversations to be able to collect data from to help figure out the results. There were three different specific conversation pointers the researcher was looking for, one being a discussion of satisfaction (intimate-conversation), discussing everyday topics (a general conversation), and no treatment control condition. Each participating couple was assigned one of the topics listed above at random. Each couple was placed into a room by themselves to talk about the topic they were assigned. The participants were videotaped and after eight minutes of speaking to one another, the researcher interrupted and told the participants to move on to the next study. The researcher examined the video to see if the couples had stayed on the assigned topic. The results came as every couple was able to do
In terms of independent variables, by referring to the Appendix, figure 1 reveals the summary of the sample; it also