Laminect: Median costs of laminectomies at hospitals across North...

In BSDA: Basic Statistics and Data Analysis

Median costs of laminectomies at hospitals across North Carolina in 1992

Description

Data for Exercise 10.18

Usage

Laminect

Format

A data frame/tibble with 138 observations on two variables

area

a character vector indicating the area of the hospital with Rural, Regional, and Metropol

cost

a numeric vector indicating cost of a laminectomy

Source

Consumer's Guide to Hospitalization Charges in North Carolina Hospitals (August 1994), North Carolina Medical Database Commission, Department of Insurance.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

boxplot(cost ~ area, data = Laminect, col = topo.colors(3))
anova(lm(cost ~ area, data = Laminect))

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