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Asked 10 May 2017

What kind of statistics do I need to use?

The question is I need to know if there is any difference or improvement in 10 patients when comparing their history of doctor visits, emergency department visits, behavior health visits and rehab visits before and after the treatment regime.
Note: treatment regime is to help patients get off from narcotic use.

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Ismail Noori Mseer
Formerly Ahlia University- Bahrain
Descriptive statistics is used to describe and summarize data. Numerical measures such as average, standard deviation and correlation are used to describe the features of a set of data. Inferential statistics studies a statistical sample and, through analysis, is able to say something about the population from which the sample came. Because it is difficult to examine each member of the population individually, a representative sample is used to make estimations, correlations and predictions using the data

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Michal S. Karbownik
Medical University of Lodz
Hi Anne,
First, define your variables: categorical, ordered, interval? In case of categorical dichotomous variable, McNemar's test could be fine. In case of at least interval variables, the paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed rank test seems to be ok.  Please check all the assumptions of t-test, i.e. random sampling, normal distribution of difference of patients score, etc. Define your question: "difference" or "improvement"? In the latter you may use one sided test. If you would like to test multiple hypotheses, correct the level of significance with Boferroni or Benjamini-Hochberg correction.
Good luck,
Michal
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Fadhil Abdulabbas Abidi
Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University
My Dear Anne
answer of my  colleague is very good and complete you can use SPSS  to run this analysis .
With Best Wishes
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Abdul Manan Soomro
Peoples University of MedIcal & Health Sciences for Women Shaheed Benazirabad
use SPSS  as per your specified variables, and need very detail questioner for your study.  
Ismail Noori Mseer
Formerly Ahlia University- Bahrain
Descriptive statistics is used to describe and summarize data. Numerical measures such as average, standard deviation and correlation are used to describe the features of a set of data. Inferential statistics studies a statistical sample and, through analysis, is able to say something about the population from which the sample came. Because it is difficult to examine each member of the population individually, a representative sample is used to make estimations, correlations and predictions using the data

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