Essay PUB561: Explain the Rationale Behind Hypothesis Testing – Statistics Assignment Help

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Objectives

This assessment addresses Unit Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 & 4:

• Explain how statistical choices in analysis link directly to the research study design that generated the data, and the type of data,

• Explain the rationale behind hypothesis testing, and the concept of Type I and II errors,

• Differentiate the most appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics to use for common types of health data,

• Analyse health data using a statistical software package, and interpret the results

 Task

The outbreak of COVID-19 is widespread across the world. In Brazil, the outbreak has infected more than 13.5million people and resulted in over 354,000 deaths to date. Brazil is currently undergoing a second wave of Covid-19 with over a half of patients in intensive care aged 39 or younger. Your task is to answer a set of research questions using current data from the Brazil health care system (sent by e-mail). This data was obtained at a particular point in time (cross-sectional) from cases reported and contains a variety of clinical and epidemiological data. Details of the data set and the variables are provided below.