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Solution Manual For Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-Based Practice, 3rd Edition

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AG 1-1Answer Guidelines for Questions to Be GradedThe questions are in bold followed by answers.1.In Table 1, identify the level of measurement for the current therapy variable. Provide arationale for your answer.Answer: The current therapy variable was measured at the nominal level. These drug categorieswere probably developed to be exhaustive for this study and included the categories of drugs thesubjects were receiving. However, the categories are not exclusive, since patients are usually onmore than one category of these drugs to manage their health problems. The current therapiesare not measured at the ordinal level because they cannot be rank ordered, since no drug categorycan be considered more or less beneficial than another drug category (see Figure 1-1 ; Grove &Gray, 2019 ).2. What is the mode for the current therapy variable in this study? Provide a rationale foryour answer.Answer: The mode for current therapy wasblocker. A total of 100 (94%) of the cardiac patientswere receiving this category of drug, which was the most common prescribed drug for thissample.3. What statistics were conducted to describe the BMI of the cardiac patients in this sample?Discuss whether these analysis techniques were appropriate or inappropriate.Answer: BMI was described with a mean and standard deviation (SD). BMI measurement resultedin ratio-level data with continuous values and an absolute zero (Stone & Frazier, 2017). Ratio-level data should be analyzed with parametric statistics such as the mean andSD( Grove & Gray,2017 ; Knapp, 2017 ).4.Researchers used the following item to measure registered nurses’ (RNs) income in a study:What category identifies your current income as an RN?a. Less than $50,000b. $50,000 to 59,999c. $60,000 to 69,999d. $70,000 to 80,000e. $80,000 or greaterWhat level of measurement is this income variable? Does the income variable follow therules outlined in Figure 1-1? Provide a rationale for your answer.Answer: In this example, the income variable is measured at the ordinal level. The income catego-ries are exhaustive, ranging from less than $50,000 to greater than $80,000. The two open-endedIdentifying Levels ofMeasurement: Nominal,Ordinal, Interval, and RatioEXERCISE1

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