Which of the Following Statements Represents a Potential Area of Research

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements represents a potential area of research?

• A) "Most of our admissions occur at night."
• B) "It is difficult to find personnel willing to work the night shift."
• C) "It seems that most of the patient falls on our unit occur during the night shift."
• D) "The night shift personnel are not attending promptly to the needs of our patient."

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Definitions:

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population parameters based on a sample taken from the population.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent states under a given number of observations.

Uniform Distribution

A type of probability distribution where all outcomes are equally likely; in a continuous uniform distribution, any value within a specified range is equally likely to occur.

Standard Normal Variable

A random variable that has a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.