Review in which there is a discussion of the effect of patient load on nursing activities in a hospital.
a. Conduct a test of hypothesis to see if patient load can be used to predict the time spent on patient care.
i. Give the null hypothesis in symbols and in a complete sentence.
ii. Why should the alternative hypothesis be one-sided?
iii. Give the critical value of the test statistic for a = 0.05.
iv. Perform the test of significance.
b. Conduct a test of hypothesis about patient load as a predictor of the time available for records and reports.
i. Give the null hypothesis.
ii. Why should the alternative hypothesis be two-sided?
iii. Perform the test of significance at a = 0.01.