Remix & Report

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The assignment

Load Packages

Copy the code from Lab 5 Rehearse 2 CC3 to load the required packages.

Remix CC1

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Load Data

For this Remix, you will work with data from the Rural Health Information Hub for the state of Alabama.

The code in Lab 5 Rehearse 2 CC4 will read in a .csv file from the /data folder and create a new data frame. Copy/paste it in the empty code block below.

You will need to edit it for the name of the data file: `Rural_Health_Data.csv`, which is in your /data folder.

Also edit the code to change the name of the data frame created to rural_health.

Remix CC2

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You should see the rural_health data object in the Environment.

Inspect the Data

Left-click on the rural_health name in the Environment to open the data object in the Source/Editor window.

Describe each of the six variables in the data set. Include the type (numerical or categorical).

If categorical, state the names of the levels.

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Research Question

Pick one of the following questions to answer:

Q1: Is there a difference in the mean obesity rate between “metro” and “nonmetro” counties in Alabama?

Q2: Is there a correlation between a county’s obesity rate and its leisure inactivity percentage?

To answer the question you choose, you will conduct a test of hypothesis using the process used in Lab 5 Rehearse 2.

Pick the example in Rehearse 2 appropriate for the question you chose to answer and “copy/paste/edit” the code chunks from it in this document.nt

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State your choice of research question

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What type of test is required to answer this question?

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Exploratory Data Analysis

Visualize the Data

Generate a visualization of the data using code from the appropriate example from Lab 5 Rehearse 2.

Remix CC3

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What do you “see” in the data visualization? Explain what it could mean.

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State Null and Alternative Hypotheses

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Specify the level of significance alpha.

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Explain what this significance level means.

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Test the hypothesis - Downey-Infer Method

Step 1: Calculate the Observed test Statistic

Remix CC4

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What does the observed test statistic indicate?

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Step 2: Generate the Null Distribution

Remix CC5

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Explain the Null Distribution for this analysis is, i.e. what it tells us relative to your choice of research question.

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Step 3: Visualize the Null and the Delta

Remix CC6

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Where does the red observed delta line fall?

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Do you think it happens often in the Null world?

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Explain why you think this.

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Do you think you will get a significant difference, i.e. a small p-value? Why?

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Step 4: Calculate the p-value

Remix CC7

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Explain what a p-value is.

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What do you think this particular p-value tells us?

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Step 5: Decide if delta_obs is statistically significant

Compare the p-value with the significance level alpha you selected for this analysis.

Remix CC8

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Results and Conclusions

Provide a one paragraph statement of your conclusions about the research question based on your analysis.

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Confidence Interval

Find the 95% confidence interval around the test statistic.

Remix CC9

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Explain what a confidence interval is.

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Does this particular confidence interval include “0”?

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What does this CI tell you about the significance of the hypothesis test, if anything?

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State what this CI tells us about the range of possible values for the test statistic in this analysis?

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Traditional Hypothesis Test

Remix CC10

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How do the results from the traditional hypothesis test compare to the Downey/Infer method results?

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Explain the assumptions of the traditional method of the hypothesis test.

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Lab Assignment Submission

As you did in previous labs, when you have edited the code chunks, you need to Knit it to see the updated graphs and tables in your final report.

When you Knit an Rmarkdown (.Rmd) file, all code chunks in it are automatically run. Also, all data objects in the Environment are ignored.

Important

When you are ready to create your final lab report, save the Lab-05-Remix-Your-Name.Rmd worksheet file and then Knit it to make a Word or PDF file.

Remember you should have your actual name in place of “Your-Name” in the file name, e.g. Lab-05-Remix-John-Jones.Rmd. You may have to “rename” your knitted file.

This image shows you how to change from “Knit to HTML” to “Knit to PDF” or “Knit to Word”.

Note that if you have difficulty getting the documents to Knit to Word or PDF and you cannot fix it, just save the completed worksheet and submit your Lab-05-Remix-John-Jones.Rmd file for partial credit.

Submit your file in the Canvas M5.4 Lab 5 Rehearse(s):  Estimation and Confidence Intervals assignment area.

The Lab 5 Inference: Estimation and Confidence Intervals Grading Rubric will be used.

Congrats

You have completed Lab 5!

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