MN 503 Unit 7 discussion 2

Topic 2: Summary of Recent Research

1. Go to the online      library and find a recent (no older than 3 years) article reporting the      results of a nursing or health research study in which a statistical      procedure from chapter 12 in your textbook is used for analysis (try using      health research and chi-square as search terms, or use the name of a      different nonparametric test). 
2. Post the      reference using APA format at the top of your response and then provide a      BRIEF one paragraph summary of the study. 
3. Discuss why the      nonparametric test was used. In order to do this, you will need to state: 
   1. What was the       Dependent Variable (DV) and at what level was it measured; 
   2. What was the       Independent Variable (IV) and at what level it was measured 
4. You will then      compare this to the type of data required and whether assumptions of the      test were met. 
5. Your posting      will conclude with whether or not the finding was statistically      significant or not, and a brief discussion of what it means for the      finding in the study to be statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

Please carefully review the Discussion Board grading rubric in the grading rubrics section of the course home.