Week 10 Statistics assignment

Go to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ to obtain 2010-2011 Influenza Season Week 51 ending December 25, 2010. Information from The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Fluview site will be used to complete the final project for this course.

Using the first chart , for Week 51 ending December 25, 2010 "National and Regional Summary of Select Surveillance" components that relate to Flu statistics, answer the following questions:

1. What is the "mean" for flu year 2010 for flu type A (H3) for the nation ?
2. Even though one pediatric death resulted from A (H3) for this question let us assume all pediatric deaths resulted from acquiring 2009A (H1N1), what is the case fatality rate for pediatric deaths? (Please refer to page 44-45 of the text if you need help)
3. Public Health uses stats to determine if they need to provide more money and attention to certain areas that have higher outbreaks of disease. With regard to flu it might be important to examine the yearly outbreaks of flu for all regions to determine if there is a pattern of consistent higher outbreaks in one region to another. This would justify for public health to spend more money and efforts to provide more flu shots and education in those regions to decrease those patterned outbreaks in turn preserving life and hospitalizations which cost society in general. With this in mind go back to the CDC Fluview and pull up the information for year endings 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and
   2010. Then produce a table for each year ranking the severity by region based on % positive for flu. You need to provide your table for each year as part of your work and then determine if you find any patterns that have developed over the
   5 years and what do you conclude from all this information?
4. Next, developing the information that you have gathered from question 3 we continue. We explored "median", which is a measure of central tendency, and would provide information as to what the norm would be annually when going back and examining past occurrences. For the table listing the regions you developed above find the median for each year for part one of this question. Then take all the medians you developed and advise what average you obtained then. How does the average you obtained for all the years compare to the 2010 year ending median?
5. Using the table above that you produced for year ending "2010" what is the range?
6. Still using the table and information obtained for year ending "2010" what would you calculate the variance and the Standard deviation to be?
   Next go back to the CDC Fluview and looking at the left side bar caption "Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report – go down and click on Past Weekly Surveillance Reports. Then find year 2009- 2010 May 23, 2010 week 20 click on and scroll to 12-26-2009 week 51 next click on then Go.
7. If you worked for public health department in the State of Illinois and were asked to compare Week 51 of 2010 to Week 51 of 2009 what detailed information could you give if you were requested to provide a year end report on Flu for Region 5 which includes the state of Illinois?
8. Make a bar graph that compares 2009 to 2010 year end activity for Region 5 for A (H3), (H1N1), and Pediatric deaths. What could you conclude about the results?
9. Further examining this year to last year what is the ratio of patients that tested positive for A (H3) for 2009 compared 2010? Next, do the same ratio for H1N1. What can you conclude when examining both results?
10. Next find the "Weekly Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations and Deaths National Summary Charts for 2010-2011 Influenza Season and also for the August 30 ^th to December 26 ^th , 2009. Comparing weeks 40 to 51 for hospitalizations and deaths for both years what could an individual involved in the Health Care Management Field conclude?

Examining the Influenza Positive Tests reported to the CDC by U.S. WHO/NREVSS

Collaborating Laboratories, National Summary, 2009-2010 Bar Chart, answer the following question:

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