Y.Singletary Ch.13&14 HIM

3. two quantities are compared such as patient discharge status
6. most common quantitative variables used in healthcare
8. frequencies,percentiles,measures of central tendency (mean,median,mode)and measures of variability(range, variance,and standard deviation)
9. order of numbers is meaningful not the number itself
10. represents measurable quantities but are not restricted
14. ones that have equal units with an arbitrary zero point
15. defined unit of measurement,day and a real zero point
17. type of ratio in which x is a portion of the whole(x+y)
19. variables ranked variables in which numbers are assigned to rank a category in an ordered series but the numbers do not indicate the magnitude of the difference between two data points
20. data that is collected daily, reports patients actitity for 24hr
21. the value that occurs most frequently in a given set of observations or values
22. measure of hospital utilization
23. those that have equal units with an arbitrary zero point
24. total los divided by the number of patients discharged

1. description of a patient population based on any number of specific characteristics including age gender type of insurance
2. numerical variables that can be classified as discreteor conmtinuous
4. are ones that can take on finite numbers that can be counted such as 204,65, and 534
5. are categorical meaning that the variable is from a specific category or group such as gender or age
7. when values are renked it is the values in which there is the same amount of numbers above and below
11. can include both numbers and text are excellent ways to display data
12. a number is assigned to a specific category such as 1=male and 2=female
13. any number value that goes from one whole number to the next whole number
16. average of a group of numerical values
18. used to measure events over a period of time