Applied analysis-Public Health Nurse- Classmate Response (1): Topic 6 DQ 1 Topic 6 DQ 1-QUESTION- Given the limited amount of statistical calculations required by some public health positions, explain why it is important for you to know how to utilize appropriate software to analyze public health data. Support your ideas with reasons, facts, and examples

Applied analysis-Public Health Nurse- Classmate Response (1): Topic 6 DQ 1 Topic 6 DQ 1-QUESTION- Given the limited amount of statistical calculations required by some public health positions, explain why it is important for you to know how to utilize appropriate software to analyze public health data. Support your ideas with reasons, facts, and examples

Classmate (Wanda)Response
While there may be limited statistical calculations that are required some public health positions, there is a need to understand a large amount of data. Public health decisions are made by the output performed by statistical software. As a public health leader, having an understanding of the software process is important when determining your company/study budget, what data you are trying to provide and whom will be receiving the output of your data. The research data, one’s technological expertise, and one’s own personal preferences will play a role in which software will work best (Sewell, 2019).
Public health and all fields of science rely heavily on computers. It is almost impossible understand research without having even a basic knowledge of statistics. In order to do that, it is important to have some level of understanding of statistical software. For example, while there are many types of software out there, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) has become a very important type of software used in statistical analysis. This software can perform the simplest analysis to the more complex (Arkkelin, 2014).