Stroke Strikes the US: an Analysis On Stroke Statistics in the US

Abstract

The purpose of this Health Statistics project was to describe trends in mortality rates due to stroke in the United States. We hypothesized that females would have a higher mortality rate than males in the US due to a stroke. We also hypothesized that there would be a positive correlation between smoking and mortality rates due to stroke. There were obvious trends in the data to develop conclusions from. We created graphs, ran an ANOVA test, a t-test, and computed correlation values using Microsoft Excel in order to analyze statistical differences in mortality rates relating to race, gender, and other variables. Through a correlation value, we found a strong positive correlation between smoking and AAMR, but no significant difference in AAMR was detected between genders.