Across
- 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
Down
- 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