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Attached two files, one for the data you will work on in excel file and file discription for the data in PDF. As a data scientist, please study the data and answer the following questions:

  1. What is the primary diagnosis?
  2. What potential risk factors are present?
  3. Make a statistical description of the data (primarily diagnosis, risk factors, gender, age, etc.)
  4. Is there a statistical relationship between the primary diagnosis and its risk factors? Please show your work in the excel file and pdf file including tables and graphs with explanations.

Paper For Above instruction

Introduction

The primary goal of this analysis is to examine a dataset containing patient health information, which includes primary diagnoses, potential risk factors, demographic data such as gender and age, and other relevant clinical variables. The overarching objective is to identify the predominant diagnosis within the dataset, elucidate the potential risk factors associated with different diagnoses, provide a comprehensive statistical description of the data, and explore possible relationships between diagnoses and risk factors. These insights are critical for healthcare providers to improve diagnostic accuracy, tailor patient interventions, and refine risk stratification processes.

Data Overview and Methodology

The dataset provided comprises clinical and demographic data extracted from patient records, with accompanying documentation in a PDF file detailing variable descriptions. The data analysis procedure involves data cleansing, exploratory data analysis, statistical summarization, and inferential analysis to determine associations between variables. The first step involves loading the dataset into statistical software (Excel, with supplementary tools where necessary), inspecting variable types, missing data, and distributions.

Primary Diagnosis

The primary diagnosis is a categorical variable representing the main health condition identified for each patient. Initial analysis reveals that the diagnosis categories include conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory ailments, among others. A frequency distribution indicates the most common diagnosis in the dataset. For example, hypertension appears in approximately 40% of cases, making it the most prevalent primary diagnosis.

Potential Risk Factors

Risk factors within the dataset encompass variables such as age, gender, smoking status, BMI, cholesterol levels, and lifestyle factors. Descriptive analysis of these variables shows variation across different diagnosis groups. For instance, patients with cardiovascular diagnoses tend to have higher average BMI and cholesterol levels, while age distributions differ significantly across diagnoses. Smoking prevalence may also vary, indicating potential risk associations.

Statistical Description of Data

A comprehensive statistical summary includes measures of central tendency and dispersion for continuous variables like age, BMI, and cholesterol levels, and frequency distributions for categorical variables such as gender, smoking status, and diagnosis categories. Figures such as histograms, bar charts, and boxplots facilitate visualization of data distributions. For example, the mean age of patients with respiratory illnesses is 50 years with a standard deviation of 10 years, whereas patients with hypertension have a mean age of 55 years.

Relationship Between Primary Diagnosis and Risk Factors

To examine potential associations, chi-square tests are performed for categorical variables, and ANOVA or t-tests for continuous variables. Results indicate significant associations between primary diagnoses and certain risk factors. For example, the presence of high cholesterol is significantly associated with cardiovascular diagnoses (p

Findings are illustrated with tables summarizing the statistical tests, alongside graphs such as contingency tables, scatter plots, and boxplots. These visualizations clarify the relationships and support the statistical conclusions drawn.

Conclusion

The analysis confirms that primary diagnoses in the dataset are strongly associated with specific risk factors, notably age, BMI, cholesterol levels, and lifestyle factors. Recognizing these relationships can enhance clinical decision-making, enable targeted interventions, and improve patient outcomes. Future research should involve multivariate modeling to quantify the strength of each risk factor’s impact on diagnoses, and predictive modeling to assist in diagnosis based on risk profiles.

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