In nursing, we seldom know the true values or percentages of many illnesses or syndromes.
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In nursing, we seldom know the true values or percentages of many illnesses or syndromes.
For example, if we were asked how many people contracted a particular strain of flu during a year then we could give estimates but not the true count.
Not everybody went to the doctor or emergency room.
Most probably did not get a test to determine the particular strain of the flu. Sometimes we just deal with estimates.
For example, in a survey done in November 2018, 43% of people in the United States had been vaccinated against the flu with 3.9% margin of error with 95% confidence (\”News Scan for Dec 06, 2018\”, 2018). This would allow us to create a confidence interval:lower bound = 43% – 3.9% = 39.1%upper bound = 43% + 3.9% = 46.9%so we are 95% confident that the true percentage of individuals that got vaccinated is between 39.1% and 46.9%.
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News Scan for Dec 06, 2018. (2018). Retrieved from http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/12/news-scan-dec-06-2018 (Links to an external site.)
Find at least two examples of confidence intervals on the internet. you can search for \”95% confidence\”, \”Margin of Error\”, or even \”confidence interval\” to find examples.
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