Nursing Research

Nursing Research

Part I

1. Which inferential statistics would you choose for the following sets of variables? Explain your answers (refer to Figure 17.5.).

a. Variable 1 represents the weights of 100 patients; variable 2 is the patients' resting heart rate.

We will use Pearson's r test since we are interested in analyzing the correlation between two variables.

The inferential statistics that will use in this scenario is independent group t- test because it is used for the comparison of the means of two independent groups. The analysis will entail does there any relationship exist among the two variables and if level of one ...