hospital: hospital: Caring for Hospital Patients

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hospital: Caring for Hospital Patients

Description

The coronary care unit at Bayonet Point Hospital in Florida investigated the relationship between the number of factors per patient and the patient's length of stay. The factors are any medical item used in the care of the hospital patients, such as needles, medicaments, intravenous fluid etc. This is data for a random sample of 50 coronary care patients.

Usage

hospital

Format

A data frame with 50 observations (rows) and 2 variables (columns).

	Column name	Data type	Description	Values
[,1]	Num_factors	integer	Number of medical items	(55 - 525)
[,2]	Stay_length	integer	Length of hospital stay in days	(2 - 15)

Details

This data is from Exercise 3.68 in A second course in statistics: Regression Analysis, 7th edition.

Source

Mendenhall, W., Sincich, T. (2012) A second course in statistics: Regression Analysis, 7th edition. Pearson Education.

Examples

# Structure of the object
str(hospital)

# Scatterplot matrix
pairs(hospital)

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