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You have been assigned a topic according to the first letter of your last name. Please identify the topic assigned to you below. For each topic, find a health science example of it in a published research study or news article. Summarize how your topic is used in the example. Do you think a different data type would be better? (Please note: You may wish to use the Library to find your example for this Discussion Board. A librarian is available should you need assistance.)

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(for last names beginning with I–P): Median (!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS ONE)>>>

Olivia Marsh posted Aug 10, 2020 2:03 PM

For this discussion, I will be discussing median. “The median represents the middle of the data, with half the observed values below the median and half the observed values above it. The mode represents the peak or most prevalent value” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). The study I found was called, “Translating Patient‐Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM ) scores into clinical practice by suggesting severity strata derived using anchor‐based methods” (2013) which was a study done to find the severity of atopic eczema. this study used the Patient‐Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM ) and two global questions for the assessment. For the data collected, they found the median score for different categories of the study like race, sex, and age. The median POEM score for all patients was 13. the median POEM score for males was 14 and for females was 13. There are several different medians found. I think the median was the best way to look at this information. the study also gave the mean which could work just as well so I think it would come down to which you would prefer to calculate.