Homework: EP Values
Instructions
Use the table to answer the questions below. Be sure to explain each answer thoroughly. Do NOT include a numerical answer without explaining how you arrived at the solution.
Fasting Blood Sugar Values Table
Alpha FBS Group Beta FBS Group
9 5 90
100 100
125 125
175 200
250 550
Task
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
• What is the mean fasting blood sugar value for each group?
• What is the median fasting blood sugar value for each group?
• What is the mode fasting blood sugar value for each group?
• What is the range of fasting blood sugar values for the Alpha Group?
• What is the range of fasting blood sugar values for the Beta Group?
• How stable is the range as a measure of variability? Why?
• What statistical value represents the 50thpercentile?
• The standard deviation (SD) for the Alpha FBS Group = 64.75. What do these values say about how the data vary around the mean for each group? Vary between groups? (See Standard Deviation text and Table 13-8 for help).
• The standard deviation (SD) for Beta FBS Group = 193.25.
• If you had each patient's fasting blood sugar value and age, what procedure will you use to make comparisons among unlike data?
• If the data sets approximated a normal distribution, then what percentage of patients' fasting blood sugar values would fall within two SDs of the mean?
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