Data has been collected!
Finally! I’m done collecting my data. As you already know I administered the survey to 50 of my dad’s patients. From here I plan to start my data analysis. Next week is Spring Break, so I may have a chance to start on the analysis, but I plan on doing the bulk of my analysis in the week after the break. I am going to have to refer back to my data analysis toolbox to help me remember what data analysis methods I am going to use. Now I am starting to realize why my teacher wanted me to create this toolbox in a way where I could simply read directions off of it. It makes the entire process much more efficient and allows you to have a clear cut view on where you stand with regards to your project.
I am going to have to enter my data in Microsoft Excel and my graphing calculator. Technology makes the data analysis part go much faster then it I was to do it by hand. My calculator will be used for most of the numerical summaries, while excel will be used for graphs. The graphs I want to create (histogram, box plot, and normal probability plot) can be created using my calculator and excel. Also, I plan to use excel to organize the numbers because it many different equation functions that can be used. Here is a website that describes some of the functions of Excel that I plan to use in my data analysis (http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/).
Looking back at my analysis methods remember that I plan to use a confidence interval, which I explained in a previous post, to make predictions about the
