Communicating population health statistics through graphs: a randomised controlled trial of graph design interventions David J Muscatello*1,
Question:
Communicating population health statistics through graphs: a randomised controlled trial of graph design interventions David J Muscatello*1, Andrew Searles2, Robin Macdonald2 and Louisa Jorm1
Questions:
Part 1. Read the assigned article.
Please reach out to your instructor if you did not receive the assigned article for the term by Monday of Week 3.
Part 2. Analyze the article.
Title:Review of Graph Communication of population health statistic presentation.
Author(s):[Type out names of Author(s) of the Article]
Summarize the article in one paragraph:
Post a screenshot of a graph/chart from the article that you will analyze:
Analysis
(Answer the following questions thoroughly in complete sentences)
- What typeof study is used in the article (quantitative or qualitative)? Explainhow you came to that conclusion.
- What typeof graph or table did you choose for your lab (bar graph, histogram, stem & leaf plot, etc.)? What characteristics make it this type (you should bring in material that you learned in the course)?
- Describethe data displayed in your frequency distribution or graph (consider class size, class width, total frequency, list of frequencies, class consistency, explanatory variables, response variables, shapes of distributions, etc.)
- Draw a conclusion about the data from the graph or frequency distribution in context of the article.
- How else might this data have been displayed (Pick two different graphs that could have been used to display the same data as your selected graph/table)?
Discuss pros and cons of 2 other presentation options, such as tables or different graphical displays.
Explainhow these graphs would be structured to display the data in the article. Why don't you think those two graphs were not used in this article?
- Give the full APA reference of the article you are using for this lab.
Be sure your name is on the Word document, save it, and then submit it. In the assignment module, click "start assignment" and then "upload file" and "submit assignment".