Statistic Lab
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- First Article: Confidence Intervals, Part 1 (Links to an external site.)
- Second Article: Confidence Intervals, Part 2 (Links to an external site.)
- Consider the use of confidence intervals in health sciences with these articles as inspiration and insights.
- Describe how you could use confidence intervals to help make a decision or solve a problem in your current job, a clinical rotation, or life situation. Include these elements:
- Description of the decision or problem
- How the interval would impact the decision and what level of confidence would be most appropriate and why
- What data would need to be collected and one such method of how such data could ideally be collected
- Save the Week 6 Lab document with your answers and include your name in the title.
Deliverables/Grading Rubric
The deliverable is a word document with your answers. This is the only file that should be submitted for this assignment. Below is the grading rubric for this assignment.
| Category | Points | % | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part A | 10 | 17% | Description of decision or problem |
| Part B | 20 | 33% | How the interval would impact the decision or problem |
| Part C | 20 | 33% | Data collection |
| Grammar and formatting | 10 | 17% | Lab is easy to read and follow; correct grammar and spelling |
| Total | 60 | 100% | A quality lab will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. |
