No doubt, in your experience as a nurse, you have noticed certain trends among your patients. Maybe you’ve noticed that teens seem to suffer more from physical symptoms of anxiety than people of other ages. Maybe you suspect that patients with higher salaries tend to visit their primary care physicians more frequently. In this discussion, please think about an interesting trend, correlation, etc. that you have noticed in the field, and put forth a hypothesis you think would be interesting to test. It is okay if your hypothesis has already been tested in the medical literature. You will not be asked to collect any data or perform the test. In your post, please do the following:
In your response you may also want (but are not required) to address the following:
State your hypothesis in plain English.
Briefly explain what experience(s) as a nurse led you to this hypothesis.
State the null and alternative hypotheses using notation.
Describe the statistical test you will need to use. Is it just a single-sample hypothesis test or will you need multiple samples? Will you be looking at the mean(s) of the sample(s) or proportion(s)?
Is there anything else you’d like to say about the hypothetical experiment? Some things you might consider:
Would it be difficult to collect the sample data?
Do you think you would need a large sample?
How would you avoid sample bias?
How could the results of your test help the medical community?
If your hypothesis has been tested before, what were the findings?
