Teen Health

Paper Summary:

This paper focuses on Rebecca Ennis's newspaper research report, "State Ranks Last in Kids Count Survey". The research report is about health care issues; i.e., teenage health-related matters and educational issues. This paper examines the efficacy of the statistical methods employed by the report to draw conclusions about the data gathered.

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"Having all survey information in hand the next task is to evaluate the soundness and efficacy of the resulting survey data. Knowing that statistics is a branch of scientific methodology, as it deals with the collection, classification, description, and interpretation of measurement data, it is essential that the statistical tool employed be robust and able to deliver the necessary value in order to drawn conclusions about the research being conducted and reported. The soundness of the statistical tool is expected for those statistics, and equally applied, that are basic (percentages) as well as for those that are complex (Baye's coefficients). In all research the essential purpose of the statistic employed if to describe and draw inferences about the numerical properties of the chosen sample or population as well as to compare data gathering procedures. Further, the chosen statistical tool is directly aligned, and responsible, for answering the posed research question and testable hypothesis. Without a felt research need, proposed research question and testable hypothesis, the statistical tool has little meaning nor does the resulting data."

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