STA3215 Advanced Statistics and Analytics - Option 2

Introduction:

As a healthcare professional, you will work to improve and maintain the health of individuals, families, and communities in various settings.Basic statistical analysis can be used to gain an understanding of current problems.Understanding the current situation is the first step in discovering where an opportunity for improvement exists.This course project will assist you in applying basic statistical principles to a fictional scenario in order to impact the health and wellbeing of the clients being served.

This assignment will be completed in phases throughout the quarter.As you gain additional knowledge through the didactic portion of this course, you will be able to apply your new knowledge to this project.You will receive formative feedback from your instructor on each submission.The final project will be due on week 5.

Scenario:

You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely at the ages of these patients.You do some research and put together a spreadsheet of the data that contains the following information:

Client number

Infection Disease Status

Age of the patient

You need the preliminary findings immediately so that you can start treating these patients. So let's get to work!!!!

Background information on the Data:

The data set consists of 65 patients that have the infectious disease with ages ranging from 35 years of age to 81 years of age for NCLEX Memorial Hospital. Remember this assignment will be completed over the duration of the course.

Patient # Infectious Disease Age

1 Yes 69

2 Yes 35

3 Yes 60

4 Yes 55

5 Yes 49

6 Yes 60

7 Yes 72

8 Yes 70

9 Yes 70

10 Yes 73

11 Yes 68

12 Yes 72

13 Yes 74

14 Yes 69

15 Yes 46

16 Yes 48

17 Yes 71

18 Yes 55

19 Yes 49

20 Yes 60

21 Yes 72

22 Yes 70

23 Yes 76

24 Yes 56

25 Yes 59

26 Yes 64

27 Yes 71

28 Yes 69

29 Yes 71

30 Yes 61

31 Yes 70

32 Yes 55

33 Yes 45

34 Yes 69

35 Yes 54

36 Yes 48

37 Yes 60

38 Yes 61

39 Yes 50

40 Yes 59

41 Yes 60

42 Yes 62

43 Yes 63

44 Yes 53

45 Yes 64

46 Yes 50

47 Yes 69

48 Yes 52

49 Yes 68

50 Yes 71

51 Yes 69

52 Yes 59

53 Yes 58

54 Yes 69

55 Yes 65

56 Yes 61

57 Yes 59

58 Yes 71

59 Yes 71

60 Yes 68

61 Yes 49

62 Yes 73

63 Yes 64

64 Yes 81

65 Yes 71

What are the following ?

Mean:

Median:

Mode:

Maximum:

Minimum:

Midrange:

Range:

Variance:

Standard Deviation: 8.92