What is the importance of statistics in nursing?
Statistics have a set of applications in every fields of study as it is the science of data collection, analysis and presentation. Fore example, in nursing, it may be used to calculate the average number of people examined per day, week , month or year. In addition to determine the time interval in which a patient should be given a medicine, to see what percentage of the patients are HIV carriers among those who got bed in the hospitals etc. In the aforementioned cases, we can use simple descriptive statistical techniques such as mean, mode and percentage. Furthermore, econometric statistical techniques may be applied to see the cause-effect relationships and severity of diseases using the regression and correlation concepts.
