A hospital is trying to improve its patient services. The hospital administrator

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A hospital is trying to improve its patient services. The hospital administrator randomly chooses one nurse from each floor of the hospital to serve on a fact committee. The nurses are asked (among other things) to keep track of how many patients they visit during each hour of the day on the nurses' daytime shifts. At the end of a month, the administrator collects the information and concludes that the nurses see an average of 22 patients per hour. (Although the values ranged from 53 to 6 patients per hour.) Based on this information the administrator reports that the average number of patients visited per hour by all nurses is 20.

Determine the following:

A Sample           

B Population      

C Variable          

D Type of Variable        

E Type of Variable        

F Statistic          

G Parameter       

Sampling Method

Explanation / Answer

A. Sample: Number of patients visited by one nurse in each floor

B. Population: Number of patients visited by all the nurses in the hospital

C. Variable: number of paients

D. Type of Variable: Catagoical (quantitative):

E. Type of Variable: Ordinal , since the values are numbers

F. Statistic: Average number of patients visited by the nurses selected for the purpose of samplimg

G. Parameter: Average number of patients visied by all the nurses of the hospital

Sampling method: Stratified sampling ; REASON: One nurse ischosen from each floor.

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