A Common Questions Asked of Every Patient Admitted to a Hospital

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Essay

A common questions asked of every patient admitted to a hospital is 'Have you experienced an unexpected/unintentional weight loss of 15 or more pounds in the last three months'. Why do think this is an important question to ask? What could it be alluding to?

Apply the correct hypothesis testing procedure based on the characteristics of the data (distribution, sample size, matched vs. independent samples).

Understand the implications of significance levels and p-values in hypothesis testing.

Understand the application and interpretation of the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test for comparing the locations of two population distributions.

Differentiate between various nonparametric tests and their applications.

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