FREQUENCY AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Frequency and Descriptive Statistics
Introduction
Statistical analysis has been applied to various fields. These are inclusive of, but they are not limited to; health sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences. The current paper seeks to assess the application of frequency and descriptive statistics in health science more specifically in the nursing realm. Frequency and descriptive statistics are a branch of statistics that aims to describe data sets without making inferences on the sampled data about the population (Golami et al., 2020). Thus, descriptive statistics aim at describing the study's variables in a meaningful way/manner. In contrast, frequency analysis aims at summarizing data by depicting the number of times a data value occurs in the data table or output (Gray & Grove, 2020). This entails analyzing the data set, including where the data are concentrated or clustered, the range of values, observation...
The current study employed a quantitative technique in the analysis of the data sets through the use of summary statistics and frequency statistics. Therefore,...
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In addressing race and ethnicity, frequency statistics were used. The result shows that the black, not Hispanic, was 80.5%, 12.8%, white (5.3%), and others were 1.4%. Those employed were 54.7% and not employed were 45.3%.
With regards to the study variable's distribution, the skewness statistics/ values were used to assess if the variables follow a normal distribution. Results show that their skewness values were -0.37, -0.727, and 2.030, respectively - indicating that they follow a normal distribution since they fall in the 3 range (Aczel & Sounder Pandian, 1999).
The histogram of age is left-skewed, that of high school grade is normally…
