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Paper Instructions:

Scenario- Applied Psychology: 

o    A large medical facility is experiencing too many missed appointments in its primary and specialty care clinics. The facility has noticed that not all patients respond well to reminder calls regarding follow-up appointments. Some patients do not answer calls and do not seem to respond to voice mail requesting they call the facility. The result is that many follow-up appointments are missed. Facility management have read articles that indicate people respond very well to text messages and would like to see which method provides the least amount of missed appointments. Missed appointments are tracked in the facility database on a monthly basis.

·        Clearly define the problem or issue you are addressing. Provide a brief background of any research you have found that might affect your research hypothesis.

·        Create a research hypothesis based on the information provided in each scenario. You have been given a data set (Microsoft® Excel® document) with two sets of interval data (just the numbers, as you must decide what they represent, such as method A results or method B results). This means you are going to test one thing against another, such as which method works best (step 1 of the steps to hypothesis testing). State the null and research hypotheses. Explain whether these hypotheses require a one-tailed test or two-tailed test, and explain your rationale.

·        Describe the sample you will use. Sample size will be 30 for each group, which are provided in your data set. Explain what type of sampling you selected.

·        Do you think you would also collect some descriptive data, such as gender, age, or shift? Why do you think it makes sense to collect descriptive data?

—Part 2–


Analyze the data from Part 1 using Microsoft® Excel® software. 
Write a 700- to 875-word paper that includes the following information:

·        Describe what method you are using to compare groups.
·        Copy and paste the output into a Microsoft® Word document, and also answer the following questions:

o    What is the significance level of the comparison?
o    What was the alpha level you identified in Week 3?
o    What was the means and variance for each variable?
o    What was the test statistic?
o    What was the critical value for both the one- and two-tailed test? 
o    Was your test one-tailed or two-tailed?
o    Were you able to reject the null hypothesis? In other words, did you prove there was a difference?

·        Talk about what these results mean in everyday language and in context to your chosen scenario.
·        Make a recommendation based on the findings.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

—Part 3–


Create a 12- to 15-slide presentation using the information you gathered and submitted in Weeks 3 and 4. Include the following:

·        Describe the problem and provide some brief background information about the situation.
·        Explain the research hypothesis.
·        Describe your sample and your sampling method.
·        Explain the four steps of the research process you followed, and define the critical value and the test statistic your analysis provided.
·        Provide the main finding of the study. What did you prove or fail to prove?
·        Provide recommendations based on your findings.

Format any citations in your presentation according to APA guidelines.