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Correlation Between Copd And Physical Activity In The United States, Ellie Ganz
Correlation Between Copd And Physical Activity In The United States, Ellie Ganz
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Objective: My objective of this project is to determine whether there is a correlation between COPD and physical activity in the United States by looking at all 50 states. Also, to determine if there is a difference between the prevalence of COPD in different regions of the US.
Methods: Data was collected and analyzed using the publicly available data set from the CDC Wonder database (wonder.cdc.gov). A Pearson correlation test and an ANOVA with post hoc tests were used to determine correlations and differences between variables to answer research questions.
Results: There is a significant negative correlation between physical activity …