A physician conducts a survey among 100 patients suffering from migraine headaches to assess the range of headache severity among his patients. What kind of data analysis would he apply to interpret the results obtained from this survey?
Quantitative and descriptive
Quantitative and inferential
Qualitative and descriptive
Qualitative and inferential

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A physician conducts a survey among 100 patients suffering from migraine headaches to assess the range of headache severity among his patients. What kind of data analysis would he apply to interpret the results obtained from this survey?
Quantitative and descriptive
Quantitative and inferential
Qualitative and descriptive
Qualitative and inferential

anonymous · Answer

A survey of post surgical patients found a high prevalence of chronic ... The discrepancy between the physician's and patient's estimate of the severity of pain

anonymous · Answer

i want to say A or C

anonymous · Answer

i want to say i know the answer. but i cant:/ @shrutipande9 can you help

shrutipande9 · Answer

what do u think...see lets suppose i m d doc and u r d patient...how would u explain me....

shrutipande9 · Answer

maybe like this...on d scale of 10 d pain is 8....d forehead speacially pains etc etc...correct?
so this becomes descriptive....

anonymous · Answer

so it is between A and C

shrutipande9 · Answer

ohh yes...and i m also a lil confused...but i think it should be qualitative....because d doc is not seeing how many patients suffer from d pain...he has decided d no...dats 100
i maybe wrong though