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Title: Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer
Url: http://jse.amstat.org/v3n2/datasets.short.html
Creator: Cooley, Mary E.
Moriarty, Helene
Short, Thomas H.
Publisher: American Statistical Association
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Villanova University
Description: This article, jointly created by authors Mary E. Cooley, Helene Moriarty and Thomas H. Short, describes a dataset on the readability of American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute pamphlets about cancer. This tests are designed to test whether the reading levels of these patients are high enough to comprehend this literature. Students should be familiar with scales of measurement, data reduction, measuring center, constructing and interpreting displays, and reaching conclusions in real problems.
LC Classification: Medicine -- Homeopathy -- Diseases, injuries, treatment, etc. -- Diseases due to diathesis -- Individual diseases, A-Z -- Cancer
Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematical statistics -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematical statistics -- Analysis of variance and covariance. Experimental design
Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematical statistics -- Graphic methods
GEM Subject: Mathematics -- Statistics
Key Concept: Mathematics -- Graphs
Mathematics -- Histograms
Mathematics -- Median, mean, and mode
Mathematics -- Statistical hypotheses
Mathematics -- Statistics
Date Issued: 1995
Resource Type: Dataset
Reference Material
Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual
Format: Document -- HTML
Audience: Educator
Learner
Education Level: High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education
Language: English
Rights: Thomas H. Short, Helene Moriarty, and Mary E. Cooley
Access Rights: Free access
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