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The nurse is assessing an older client for any potential hematologic health problem. Which assessment finding is the most significant and would be reported to the primary health care provider?

Which information obtained by the nurse in the clinic about a patient who has been taking prednisone 40 mg daily for 3 weeks is most important to report to the health care provider?

If two samples are drawn randomly from the same population and sample A has n=650 and sample B has n=400, which sample will have a larger standard error of the mean?

When the data from a survey are entered into a spreadsheet format. What do the rows correspond to?

In the figure shown here, what is b?

If you use t-test to compare 4 group means, Type 1 error rate decreases when you conduct multiple t-tests. 

Which of the following statistical tests would you use? You would like to see change in fasting LDL cholesterol levels in 200 men before and after they take a new kind of lipid lowering medication.

If we find that an ANOVA between 4 groups provides an F=7.2, P=0.075, how many post hoc tests do we need to perform?

If the population is skewed, the sampling distribution of all the sample means (x-bars) will be skewed. 

A two-sided test of H0: μ=0, α=0.05 (two sided), yields a p-value of 0.019.   Will the 95% confidence interval for μ include 0?