NR-449 Week 6 Discussion: Identifying and Interpreting Descriptive Statistics
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Examine the survey results located in the Resources section of the Unit 6 Assignments page. Choose one of the items, determine the descriptive statistic that is reported, & indicate what it means. For example, “What is the highest level of education of this group?” (Please do not repeat the sam...
NR 449 Unit 6: Identifying &
Interpreting Descriptive Statistics
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Examine the survey results located in the Resources section of the Unit 6
Assignments page. Choose one of the items, determine the descriptive
statistic that is reported, & indicate what it means. For example, “What is the
highest level of education of this group?” (Please do not repeat the same topic
as your classmates.)
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Karen Hobbs
Karen Hobbs
Dec 19, 2018 Dec 19, 2018 at 10:04am
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This week, our discussion will focus on identifying & interpreting descriptive
statistics.
You may begin posting on Sunday, February 10th, 2019
for credit. The course outcomes for this week include the
following:
1. Examine the sources of knowledge that contribute to
professional nursing practice.
2. Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of
published research studies.
3. Identify ethical issues common to research involving human subjects.
For this week's discussion, you will access they hypothetical survey
results located in the Resources section of the Unit 6 Assignments page.
The discussion will revolve around data collection & analysis, & is
designed to help you report & interpret descriptive statistics. Refer back
to the "rules" for looking at data in this unit's lesson. Consider how the
use of different statistics gives meaning to research findings.
Please utilize the Threaded Discussion graded rubric as a guideline for
posting to the discussions. These are the criteria you will be graded on
which includes the use of citations & references according to current APA.
, As always, please be sure to ask any questions you have in the Q&A
forum.
Karen Hobbs
khobbs@chamberlain.edu
480.262.6748
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Collapse SubdiscussionKaren Hobbs
Karen Hobbs
Feb 10, 2019 Feb 10 at 10:45am
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Entry Class,
This is just a reminder post that for this discussion thread, you are
referring to the hypothetical surveyLinks to an external site. posted in this
week's lesson. There are 12 questions in the survey. Since there are 22
students in this group, a maximum of two students can elect to use each
question.
To avoid any confusion. you may with to post cut & past the question you
opted to use at the very beginning of your post to make it easier to
identify to other students.
Thanks!
Professor Hobbs
khobbs@chamberlain.edu
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Karen Hobbs
Karen Hobbs
Feb 11, 2019 Feb 11 at 10:25pm
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Entry Class,
Question 5, "what is your gender?" has been used by 2 students already
so be sure to pick a different question!
Thanks,
, Professor Hobbs
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Collapse SubdiscussionChona Balingit
Chona Balingit
Feb 12, 2019 Feb 12 at 1:53am
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6. What is your racial or ethnic background? Hispanic (of any
race) 3.0% b. American Indian or Alaska Native 0.5% c. Asian 2.5% d.
Black or African-American 15.8% e. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific
Isl&er 0.2% f. White 69.1% g. Race or ethnicity unknown 8
I chose question #6 that asked about ethnicity at a nominal level data.
Each race or ethnicity is represented with numbers & then calculated to get
percentage values.
According to Houser, nominal-level data denote categories; numbers
given to these data are strictly for showing membership in a category &
are not subject for mathematical calculations (Houser, 2018). A research
study that has descriptive or inferential results will show summary
statistics that may show percentages, rates, or derived variables. These
values are calculated from the frequency data collected in the study
(Houser, 2018). In statistics, frequency “means a count of the instances
in which a number or category occurs in a data set” (Houser, 2018, p.
293). To
analyze the descriptive & inferential result, there are four basic rules to
look at data in the Results section of a study (Chamberlain College of
Nursing, 2018).
I found an article, Incidence of Sinusitis Associated With Endotracheal &
Nasogastric Tubes: NIS Database that used descriptive data with a nominal
level of measurement. Here I analyzed the article’s Result section based
on the 4 basic rules,
Rule #1 – underst&ing the purpose of the study
The two objectives were “(1) to use information in the NIS database for
the years 2008 through 2013 to compare the incidence of sinusitis in
patients with nasogastric tubes with the incidence in patients with an
endotracheal tube only or a combination of an endotracheal tube & a
nasogastric tube; & (2) to describe the extent to which the following
variables were associated with the diagnosis of sinusitis in the patients
specified in the preceding objective: sex, age, race, type of admission
(elective or non-elective), insurance status, & died in hospital.”
(Metheny, Hinyard & Mohammed, 2018, p. 25);
Rule #2 - identify the variables – independent & dependent
Independent variable was the type of tube the patient had (classified as
nasogastric tube, endotracheal tube, or both nasogastric & endotracheal
, tubes) & the dependent variable was the diagnosis of acute sinusitis during
the hospitalization.
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