Hospital: Hospital Database

Description Usage Format Examples

Description

This database contains observations for 11 variables on US hospitals.

Usage

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data("Hospital")

Format

A data frame with 200 observations on the following 12 variables.

hosp

hospital number in the datafile

region

1=South, 2=Northeast, 3=Midwest, 4=Southwest, 5=Rocky Mountain, 6=California, 7=Northwest

ctrl

Type of ownership: 1=government, nonfederal, 2=nongovernment, not-for-profit, 3=for-profit, 4=federal government

service

Type of hospital: 1=general medical, 2=psychiatric

beds

Number of beds

admiss

Number of admissions

census

a numeric vector

visits

Number of outpatients

births

Number of births

totexp

Total expenditures

payroll

Payroll expenditures

personnel

a numeric vector

Examples

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data(Hospital)
## maybe str(Hospital) ; plot(Hospital) ...

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