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Using Statistics to Describe Study SampleStudent:Professor:Course title:Date:Answers to study questionsThe demographic variables that were measured include the following: income, age, race, length of labor, return to work, marital status, education, type of feeding, as well as amount of household and infant care responsibilities.The statistics used in describing the length of labor in this study include standard deviations and means. These statistics were appropriate since the actual length of labor of the participants was obtained which provided ratio-level data that were analyzed descriptively with the use of both means and standard deviations. The other statistic that could have been utilized in describing the length of labor includes frequencies, and these would be appropriate when looking at detailed information on category/nominal data.The distribution of scores for both groups for the length of labor is rather different. This is because the lengt...