Questions and Answers of Statistics For Nursing A Practical Approach

A nurse researcher is assessing how well patients respond to two different dosing regimens of a new drug approved to treat diabetic neuropathy. Two different dosing regimens are administered, and
You complete a study in which you categorize the subject’s blood pressure as normal, prehypertensive, high blood pressure stage 1, or high blood pressure stage 2 using the following criteria. What
After meeting with your statistician, you measure compliance with the DASH diet on a scale of 1 to 7. For analysis purposes, the dietary compliance variable is now what level of measurement? Why
Your community begins a large-scale influenza vaccine effort, and the following year, the number of cases drops see Table 2-6.Construct a line graph showing the data from 2017 and the data from 2018.
You are now interested in examining compliance with a DASH diet. You ask your subjects if they have or have not complied with the diet this week. Your dietary compliance variable is what level of
What is your dependent variable? Is it continuous or categorical?Statistics: Is what you observe what you expected? I know the manager said you need to learn to relax but I don't think this is what
You conclude your study by examining how compliance with the DASH diet affects the stage of high blood pressure. What is your independent variable?
Thirty fathers were asked about the highest level of education they had completed. Ten completed only elementary school, 10 completed elementary and high school, 7 completed all levels through
Use the frequency distribution in Table 2-5 to construct a bar chart for influenza cases in your hospital during 8 months in 2017-2018. Would your chart look different if it were a histogram? Discuss
In your study of 40 people, 8 had no cold symptoms, 12 had mild cold symptoms, 9 had moderate cold symptoms, and 10 had severe cold symptoms. One patient was lost to follow-up, and no data could be
Your community begins a large-scale influenza vaccine effort, and the following year, the number of cases drops see Table 2-6.Why didn’t the numbers change significantly for August and September?
What percentage of the adolescents are employed? What percentage of the adolescents are in school? Are these variables quantitative or qualitative? Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.See the
Your community begins a large-scale influenza vaccine effort, and the following year, the number of cases drops see Table 2-6.Do you consider the vaccine effort to be successful? Why? TABLE
Identify the level of measurement of each variable.See the data in Table 2-7. TABLE 2-7 Demographic Characteristics of 92 Adolescents Completing a Family Planning Survey n (%)
Could any of these variables have been measured as continuous quantitative variables?See the data in Table 2-7. TABLE 2-7 Demographic Characteristics of 92 Adolescents Completing a Family Planning

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