Bayesian statistics

Anyone working in a care setting should be aware that broken equipment is a risk to children. We need to check equipment regularly and all broken equipment needs to be removed or fixed as soon as possible, to reduce this hazard. Practitioners should use policies to cover personal hygiene in a setting. Children should be safe and comfortable at all times. A policy involving personal hygiene for example will tell a setting that children should never be left wet or soiled and should be educated in…

When it comes to individual, everyone has different levels of ability to deal with memory. In reality, you will find many women complaining that their husbands or boyfriends tend to forget their birthdays and anniversaries; and men always explain that they have bad memories. So, is it true that women have a better memory than men? Dose gender affect memory? The evidence shows that gender dose affect memory. In fact, men and women are equally affected by short-term memory loss. Nevertheless,…

What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were these appropriate? The SD of the experimental group was 7.78 hours with a mean of 14.63 and was measured in 30 of 32 subjects. The SD of the control group was 7.2 hours with the mean being 12.79 hours, measured in 33 of 35 subjects. Based on the statistical methods to obtain the means, these number look right to me although 12 to 14 hours of labor for an average woman in today’s world is often long thus I would…

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to see if there is a link between the birth weight and gestation of newborn babies with smoking mothers and non- smoking mothers. The significance of this investigation is to find a relationship between the two as it might help with health benefits. The features in the investigation are the relationship between the two sets of data between the birth weight and the gestation period of smoking mothers and non-smoking mothers. Part A: The median for the…

Caffeine Impact on Goldfish Metabolism Introduction Metabolism is a process that enable organisms to maintain their life. Metabolism can be measured in numerous parameters. Within this experiment in order to measure the metabolism rate by determined the level of dissolved oxygen. Goldfish is an example of poikilotherm that are organisms that are influenced by the environment surrounding them. Thus, the manipulation of surrounding can influence the metabolism rate due them being ectotherms.…

The introduction of the article opened with a statement that racial privilege still exists in America. Phillips and Lowery (2015) identify Caucasians as the most privileged of all races. They claimed that whites had better earnings (Hao, 2011) greater life expectancy (Bleich, Jarlenski, Bell, & LaVeist, 2012) better access to health care (Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2003) and high-quality education (Rumberger, 2010) than other races, specifically African-Americans. As a result of their view of…

What is the most significant challenge I’m facing so far in my teaching role? The most significant challenge I am facing so far, is having the feeling of complete control over the classroom without trying to micromanage every single student, task, and behavior. The feeling I currently have is that when I sense that I do not have control of the class, I tend to start micromanaging things. This is a behavior I want to work on internally, so that externally I show confidence. One way that I will…

The questions posed should be reflective of your goals and should appeal to a large audience. Committees always want to know your potential and if you can convey your ideas effectively. Before starting, find out what most interest you, not you advisor nor anyone else. If no ideas come to mind, refer back to previous studies for ideas. Develop your questions, and don’t be obsessed about perfection; a lot of factors in field work are out your control, so try several experiments at once, and work…

Making Cents of Statistics: Flipping a Coin to Analyze the Law of Large Numbers in a Classroom Setting Introduction Flipping a coin is a simple action most people have seen or done. But what results would one yield if they flipped a coin one hundred time. The Law of Large Numbers addresses the results that are almost certain. The Law of Large Numbers is “A law expressing the fact that if a trial in which all outcomes are independent of each other and equally likely is repeated, then the…

Summary The paper “Observant, nonaggressive temperament predicts theory-of-mind development” by Wellman, Lane, LaBounty, and Olson (2011) reports on their longitudinal study, that was run to test the connections between a child’s temperament and their development of a theory-of-mind. Temperament is a multi-layer concept that influence a child’s personality, which influences how they interact with the world. The way that children interact with society and the way society interacts with the child…