Question

medical procedures across the ays Medicare payments for patients with septicemia or 15. The site data.cms. gov provides data on average expenditures for me nation. The histogram in Figure 7.3 displ severe sepsis in a random sample of thirty-six hospitals Figure 7.3: Medicare payments for sepsis patients (a) Describe the key features of the histogram. (b) Approximately what percent of Medicare payments for sepsis are at most $10,000? (c) Approximately what percent of Medicare payments for sepsis are at least $13,000? at 36 hospitals 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000 Medicare Payments (dollars)

Answer 1

a)

The histogram is right skewed as most of the frequencies lie in left region. Range of the histogram is from 8000 to 19000 and peak frequency

b)

Percent of Medicare payments for sepis that are at most $10000

= Total Frequency count till 10000 / Total count * 100 %

= (2+6) / (2+6+7+8+7+4+1+0+0+1)

= 22.22%

c)

Percent of Medicare payments for sepis that are at least $13000

= Total Frequency count from 13000 / Total count * 100 %

= (4+1+0+0+1) / (2+6+7+8+7+4+1+0+0+1)

= 16.67%