Imagine that you have collected data from 100 patients. You have carefully compiled vitals, pain scores, and medications for each of the patients. However,
what does all of this data mean? Is your work now done?
How do we make data meaningful? Why must we move beyond the raw data to ensure that data is purposeful?
Descriiptive analysis is the analysis of the data to develop meaning. Descriiptive analysis provides meaning through showing, describing, and summarizing
the data compiled to “reveal characteristics of the sample and to describe study variables” (Gray & Grove, 2020). This allows the researcher to present data in
a more meaningful and simplified way.
For this Assignment, summarize your interpretation of the descriiptive statistics provided to you in the Week 4 Descriiptive Statistics SPSS Output document.
You will evaluate each variable in your analysis.
