A researcher wants to know whether non-profit hospitals provide more uncompensated care than for-profit hospitals. The data on uncompensated care (in $1000) for all hospitals, along with hospital status (FP, NP, or GVMT) is available from AHA database.
What is the independent and dependent variable?
A researcher wants to know whether non-profit hospitals provide more uncompensated care than for-profit hospitals. The d...
For the following, determine what test to run. These answers include more than correlations and t-tests. A researcher wants to know if there is a relationship between whether or not a community has a neighborhood watch program (where residents walk the streets of the neighborhood) or not, and its rate of violent crimes over the past 12 months. What test would be used to assess this relationship? 2. Another researcher is also interested in the effectiveness of neighborhood watch programs...
Case 2.1: Organizational Culture Can Help Reduce Burnout in Hospitals There are more than 5,600 hospitals in the United States that admit a total of approximately 35 million patients each year, so it is no surprise that there is a great amount of pressure on physicians, nurses, staff, and hospital administrators to provide top quality care with the utmost urgency and accuracy. The services these health care professionals provide are invaluable and the decisions they make can have a lasting...
71. A researcher wants to know whether writing an essay on a controversial topic will have an effect on the attitudes held by people. First, she administers an attitude survey that covers a number of topics, including electronic voting machines. She then randomly assigns subjects to write an essay either supporting or opposing the use of electronic voting machines. One week later, she administers the same attitude survey and compares those responses to the responses from the first time the...
7. A researcher wants to know whether the acidity of rain (pH) near Houston, Texas, is significantly different from that near SC Chicago, Illinois. He randomly selects 12 rain dates in Texas and 14 rain dates in Illinois and obtains the following data: Texas 4.69 5.10 5.22 4.46 4.93 4.65 5.22 4.76 4.25 5.14 4.11 4.71 Illinois 4.40 4.22 4.64 4.54 4.35 4.69 4.69 4.75 4.40 4.63 4.45 4.49 4.36 4.52 Source: National Atmospheric Deposition Program (a) Is the sampling...
Problem Set 7.1: t Test with Related Samples • Criterion: Differentiate between independent samples, repeated measures, and matched samples. • Data: o Scenario A: A researcher wants to know whether men or women spend more money at the movie concession stand. He asks the concession clerk to identify customers as male or female by marking their gender on each saved receipt. o Scenario B: A CPR instructor wants to know if her students are learning anything during her 90-minute training....
Answer the following parts: Aerobic dancing study: A researcher wants to know which exercise program is more effective in reducing body mass index (BMI) in 60 to 70 year-old individuals with diabetes: 1) a 20 minute aerobic dancing program or 2) a 20 minute walking program. The participants in the research project will be 60 volunteers living in a large gated retirement community. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the aerobic dancing group or the walking group. Participants will exercise...
a researcher wants to know whether males and females consider personality or looks ate more important in mate selection. He decides to run a 2X2 ANOVA to examine the differences between what quality attracts people more( personality/looks) and whether gender (male/female) impacts the difference anwer the following questions df Score (M Equal variances assumed 036 8494.584 233 Equal variances not 4.657 182.973 Independent Samples Test Hest for Equality of Means 95% Mean Std. Error Difference しDifference Sig (2-tailed) Lower Score...
a Eleanor Qwan is a college student who has started a non-profit organization to provide support and companionship for elderly shut-ins. She is now at the stage of recruiting volunteers. She envisions two major tasks to be performed by volunteers: visitation and derical work. She is interested in whether one of these tasks would be more attractive to volunteers than the other task, and she also is interested in whether males and females feel differently. She randomly selected 40 adult...
Prenatal Screening test Prenatal screening is a non-invasive type of testing that is available to all pregnant individuals in Ontario. Non-invasive means that there is no risk to the pregnant person or the baby. Screening uses ultrasound, blood work or some combination of both to get information about the likelihood of a baby having a specific health condition. Screening tests do not tell you for sure if the baby has the condition, only what the chance is. A physician will...