Non-parametric statistics

PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY Child predictors significantly related to severe and moderate obesity at 5 years in the univariate analysis were shown in a table (Andersen, Bor, Najman, O 'Callaghan, & Williams, Prediction of Obesity in Children at 5 Years: A Cohort Study, 1997). They were measured using relative risk and the 95% confidence interval. Factors predictive of severe obesity were birth weight exceeding the 94th percentile: RR 1.8, 95% CI 1.1-2.9, birth weight between the 85th and 94th…

Research Question: What are effective methods to reduce HAI’s/ MRSA in the acute care setting? Overview of problem: Hospital acquired infections are very common in the United States. According to the CDC it is estimated that one in twenty patients will contract a HAI. One common HAI is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of Staphylococcus that has acquired resistance to a large array of antibiotics.. Significance of the problem: The indubitable issue with HAI; MRSA is…

A small burette funnel was filled with column packing solvent at mobile phase, high boiling petroleum, in this case hexane (and then 10%acetone hexane mixture), and Alumina as stationary phase. When adding the sand and the alumina they have to be first mixed with the hexanes in order not to disturb the column. The Lycopene is Red- Orange and more attracted to alumina due to its high degree of Unsaturation, which can be expected to be eluted after Yellow-Orange Carotene pigments. And the other…

Below is the “study guide” for the MidTerm Exam. Of the 100+ questions below – 65 of them are the MidTerm. No answers are provided in the study guide (since the whole idea is for you to” review and study” the material to prepare for the test). True or False Chapter 01 1. Much of managerial accounting is directed at gathering useful information about costs for planning and control decisions. 2. Direct materials are not usually easily traced to a product. 3. A variable cost…

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…

activity in the brain and consists of two basic states: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid eye movement sleep, which consists of Stages 1 through 4. During sleep, the body cycles between non-REM and REM sleep. Typically, people begin the sleep cycle with a period of non-REM sleep followed by a very short period of REM sleep.” A completed cycle of sleep consists of a progression from stages 1-4(non-REM) before REM sleep is attained, then the cycle starts over again. One sleep cycle…

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…

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 whole data set is 3067.5 pounds for birth weight…

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…