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Bivariate Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Analysis in Nursing

1 Bivariate Descriptive statistics and Inferential t test and ANOVA Type Your Name Here Toronto Metropolitan University CNUR 860 Statistic and Nursing Assignment 2 Professor Rupinder Khaira Due Date 2 Question 1 a) Create Contingency Tables for the following i) 'Age group' and 'gender' - Age group is the dependent variable and gender is the independent variable. Table 1. PivotTable for gender and age group Count of gender Age groups 16 to 30 years 4 3 31 to 60 years 9 61 to 80 years 4 4 81 + years 13 7 20 Grand Total 30 23 53 Gende r female e mal 9 18 Grand Total 7 8 ii) 'Age group' and 'transition type'- Age group is an independent variable and the transition type is the dependent variable. Table 2. Pivot table for age group and transition type Count of age groups Transition type internal within the facility 3 external outside of the facility 4 11 4 Grand Total 7 18 Age group 16 to 30 years 31 to 60 years 7 61 to 80 years 4 8 81+ years 3 17 36 20 53 Grand Total 17 3 iii) 'Age group' and 'family support for transition'- Age group is the independent variable and family support for transition is the dependent variable. Table 3 Pivot table for age group and family support for transition Count of Age groups Age group 16 to 30 31 to 60 Grand Total Family supports for transition years years 61 to 80 years 81+ years family does not support the transition 2 4 6 14 26 family does support the transition 5 14 2 6 27 Grand Total 7 18 8 20 53 iv) 'Gender' and 'transition type'- Gender is the independent variable and transition type (categorical variable) is the dependent variable. The transition type is nominal data because it has no order of arrangement (Woo, 2019). Table 4 Pivot table for gender and transition type Count of gender Transition type female e Internal within the facility 9 External outside of the facility 21 15 36 Grand Total 30 23 53 Gende r mal 8 17 Grand Total b) I would like to discuss the findings of table 3 'age group' and 'family support for transition'. As per the findings of descriptive analysis for the given sample, one can clearly see that the age group of 81and more has the least family support for the transition. In contrast, the age group of 31 to 60 years has the highest family support for the transition. Likewise, if we look at the age group in comparison to family