Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the
injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month's time. The second set contains data on the
number of minutes that each patient spe
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Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the
injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month's time. The second set contains data on the
number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor's office. You
can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each
data set.
For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To
organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency
table, or a relative frequency table? Why?
What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency
distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?
A visual display is used to show data. Frequency is a measure of how often something occurs.
A frequency table is used to measure and visually show how often a data value occurs
[ CITATION Tim18 \l 1033 ]. I would use the relative frequency table to display the list of all
injuries that were seen in a month’s time. This will help to point out the most common and seen
injury for the month. A relative frequency table is a chart that shows the popularity or mode of a
certain type of data based on the population sampled [ CITATION Tim18 \l 1033 ].Graphs are
also helpful to visualize data. Therefore, it is best to display the list of injuries in a bar graph. The
Y-axis would be the count or number of injuries starting from 0 and continue with increments of
5. The X-axis is the injury types which includes sprains, fractures, concussions, and lacerations.
Moreover, excessive patient waiting can affect a patient’s outcome. Being able to know the
wait time can help doctors’ offices or emergency departments make changes that can improve the
overall wait time such as hiring more staff or adding on calls on the busy days. So, I would use
the line graph to graph and visualize the data gathered. Line graphs are used to track changes
over short and long periods of time [ CITATION Lee18 \l 1033 ]. When smaller changes exist,
line graphs are better to use than bar graphs. Line graphs can also be used to compare changes
over the same period of time for more than one group [ CITATION Lee18 \l 1033 ]. The Y-axis
would list the minutes starting with 0 and continue with increments of 10. The X-axis would list
the days of the week starting with Sunday and ending with Saturday. This will give me a wait
time average per day.
References
Johnson, L. (2018, April 23). The Difference Between Bar Graphs and Line Graphs. Retrieved from
Sciencing: https://sciencing.com/difference-bar-graphs-line-graphs-6471264.html
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