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Suppose you work at a local state hospital. In 2015, the infectious disease department of the...

Suppose you work at a local state hospital. In 2015, the infectious disease department of the hospital was operating at max capacity. Your supervisor has given you the job of presenting to the hospital leadership board about the number of patients who contracted infections while at 30 different hospitals in your state in 2015. The board will use your findings to make informed decisions about possible expansion of the infectious disease department. You will review the data, create visuals for the data, and create a presentation for the hospital leadership board to help with the decision.

2015
Hospital   Infections *Secondary column are the # of infections*
1 89
2 58
3 96
4 206
5 31
6 16
7 249
8 79
9 29
10 6
11 222
12 108
13 58
14 54
15 81
16 64
17 9
18 130
19 37
20 121
21 27
22 6
23 95
24 7
25 18
26 37
27 140
28 74
29 134
30 184

   Infections
Min=
Q1=   
Median=   
Q3=   
Max=   

Check for Outliers  
IQR=   
Lower=   
Upper=   

Infection Class Frequency
6 - 81=   
82 - 156=
157-231=   
232-306=   

•   Use the following data to complete the values, a histogram, box & whisker plot, bell curve with distribution, and answer the following questions below.
•   How did the outliers impact the mean and median? How did they impact the histogram?
•   How would you describe the shape of your histogram? Is it skewed?
•   Which do you think is a better measure of central tendency, median or mean? Why?
•   How would you describe how spread out your data is? What did you calculate or which visual supports your conclusion on how spread out the data is?
•   How does your data support your conclusion?

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