re: week 4 article

Hi Carol, 

Carol, I'm a bit concerned here. The assignment was to take the article that you submitted during Week 3 and answer the questions based on that article. You submitted three different articles, the final one was approved ("Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics, involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 1983, and number of psychiatric beds in England 1996-2006"), and this article had all the information that you needed to answer the questions. It was actually a very good article for the assignment because they used relatively straight forward statistical procedures. I am concerned because you open the paper by discussing data collection as though you yourself did the study.  Because it is highly unlikely that you completed any sort of study within the time frame of this class, especially one on such a sensitive topic with 500 responses,  could you please provide more explanation on where this information came from?  There is no other reference besides the one for the power analysis, which is well beyond what we discussed in here.  I'm at a loss for how to grade this.  Even though the basic questions were answered (you stated a statistical procedure, the statistical significance and discussed the conclusions), the purpose of the assignment was to answer these questions in relation to the article that you submitted in Week 3, which was supposed to be the article that you submitted in Week 3.  Please get back in touch with me as soon as possible so that I know how to proceed with this.  

Denise