SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT
Signature Assignment
Allen Holder
QNT/561 Applied Business Research & Statistics
June 26, 2018
Jorge Hurtarte
2
SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT
Part 1: Preliminary Analysis
Upon successful completion of my MBA program, I work in the analytics department for
a consulting company....
Upon successful completion of my MBA program, I work in the analytics department for
a consulting company. my assignment is to analyze the provided Hospital databases. As a
consultant, I was asked to use the Hospital database and construct a 90% confidence interval to
estimate the average census for hospitals. Next, I will adjust the level of confidence to 99%. And
explain what happened to the interval. The goal of this study, is to discover the average census
for hospitals in the United States, and to determine the various types of hospital ownership,
proportions of general medical and psychiatric hospitals and to determine the number of births
and average number of employed personnel in an average hospital in the United States. Our
objective is to answer the following questions during this study:
What is the average census for an average hospital in the US?
What are the main types of hospital ownerships in the US?
What are the proportions of general medical and psychiatric hospital?
What is the average number of births in an average hospital in the US?
What is the average number of personnel employed by an average hospital in the US?
The overall population in the study includes all general medical and psychiatric hospitals
from seven selected areas in the United States. The seven areas are California, South, Southeast,
Northeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain.
The sample of this hospital study includes of a total of 200 hospitals chosen at random
from the above seven regions/areas.
Discuss the types of data and variables:
-Are the data quantitative or qualitative?
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