Statistics Project

Statistics Project for HIM-M425
Quantitative Analysis of Health Information
Bachelor Level
Skill: Health Care Statistics
• Identify data sources
• Interpret inferential statistics
• Analyze statistical data for decision making
• interpret measures of central tendency, measures of frequency and measures of variation
through visual presentation
Roles incorporating the skill:
• Certified Health Data Analyst
• Researcher
• Epidemiologist
Delivery areas:
• Hospitals/University teaching hospitals
• Insurance companies
• Consulting firms
• Government agencies
• Pharmaceutical companies
Review resource attached to the assignment:
• Descriptive & Inferential Statistics
Directions for Statistics Project:
1.
Access the Information on “Smoking & Tobacco Use” by going to the CDC website at
www.cdc.gov.
2.
Go to near the bottom of the home page and click on “Healthy Living.”
3.
Scroll down and click on “Smoking & Tobacco Use.”
4.
You will then see tabs that says Fast Facts, Year of Cessation, etc. Scroll to the bottom of that page,
under the blue boxes, and you will see STATE System (State Tobacco Activities Tracking and
Evaluation System). Click on that.
5.
Scroll down and click on “Custom Reports.”
6.
This is where you will begin to extract data for your project. In the dropdown box for Topic Type,
choose “Tobacco Use – Survey Data.”
7.
Then select the other criteria as shown in the figure below. As you enter each field the next field
will appear. You do not have to choose Indiana.
8.
Finally, select “View Report.” Carefully read: “How do I interact with the table?” This will tell you
how to filter to interpret your findings. From this you will identify what areas you will explore, such as
smoking by race, or gender, or education, or combinations of those, etc.
Create a formal report (a report that includes a cover page, calculation of basic statistics, the interpretation
of the findings, including any relevant information to present the topic, history, explanation of the data, etc.
as well as the graphical display of the data) to discuss your state’s current status on smoking and tobacco
use. You will also include a reference page with your report. The report should be professional in
appearance, be free of any grammatical errors, and the graphical display of data should be labeled
appropriately and show the data from the report pulled off the CDC site. Not including the cover page and
references, your body of written work should be at least 7 – 10 pages double spaced or at least 4 – 7 pages
single spaced including graphs, figures, and tables. You will be required to use the most recent three years
of data for your project, which will give you the opportunity to compare different years of data and to
discover any trends for smoking and tobacco use. See the grading rubric for additional information and
how your project will be graded.
Your statistics project will be graded on 8 components, with bullet points labeling some tips that can greatly
enhance your statistics project. The bullet points are recommendations, but the highest project grades will
answer most or all of these bullet points properly. For a formal research paper that you see in numerous
articles today, components 2 through 8 are significant and will be required for your project. Finally, note that
each component has a designated point value assigned. The computation of statistics, display of data, and
results components of your project will be weighted more heavily than the other components of your project
because, after all, this is a health statistics class.
The due date for the Statistics Project is Monday, December 6, 2021, at 5p ET. NO LATE STATISTICS
PROJECTS will be accepted WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL and with extenuating circumstances.
Statistics Project
Statistics Project
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
Cover Page
2 pts
Full Marks
Methods
• What data source are
used?
• What is the sample size
(if any) of the data using
and how was it
collected?
• What variables used
and how were the
variables defined?
Display of Data
• use appropriate data
display techniques to
summarize the data that
were collected?
• label their graphs and
charts properly?
• Are captions, footnotes,
headnotes, and title
labeled and displayed
properly?
• frequency table created,
if needed?
0 pts
No Marks
2 pts
10 pts
Four
areas
discussed
and
covered
5 pts
Three
areas
discussed
and
covered
3 pts
Two
areas
discussed
and
covered
2 pts
One area
discussed
and
covered
0 pts
No
Marks
20 pts
Four
areas
discussed
and
covered
10 pts
Three
areas
discussed
and
covered
5 pts
Two
areas
discussed
and
covered
3 pts
One area
discussed
and
covered
0 pts
No
Marks
10 pts
20 pts
Statistics Project
Criteria
Analysis of Data and
Results
• interpret the data and
results correctly?
• report any major
findings from the data?
• explain the data results?
• comparisons being
made among variables or
categories and did the
student explain them
appropriately?
Discussion and
Conclusion
• What did you learn
from the statistics in your
project?
• How applicable are
your results to the
context of the situation
happening in the real
world?
• Were there limitations
to your study?
• What recommendations
or future studies or ideas
would you suggest to
further add to your
research question and
topic?
Reference Page-APA
Ratings
Pts
20 pts
Four
areas
discussed
and
covered
10 pts
Three
areas
discussed
and
covered
5 pts
Two
areas
discussed
and
covered
3 pts
One area
discussed
and
covered
0 pts
No
Marks
9 pts
Four
areas
discussed
and
covered
5 pts
Three
areas
discussed
and
covered
3 pts
Two
areas
discussed
and
covered
2 pts
One
areas
discussed
and
covered
0 pts
No
Marks
4 pts
Proper
APA
2 pts
APA with errors, such
as missing hanging
indent
0 pts
Did not follow
APA guidelines
20 pts
9 pts
4 pts
Statistics Project
Criteria
Effort
• Did the student put any
effort and time in
creating a worthy
presentable project or did
the student hastily
complete their project at
the last minute?
Ratings
Pts
6 pts
Professionally
presented
3.33 pts
Mediocre, had
careless errors
0 pts
No
Marks
6 pts
9 pts
90%100%
2.25 pts
70%79%
0 pts
59% or
less
9 pts
Grammarly
Total Points: 80
Rev. 08/12/21
4.5 pts
80%89%
1.13 pts
60%69%