Community Hospital Collected Data on the Length of Time That

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Essay

Community Hospital collected data on the length of time that patients stayed in the intensive care ward. The mean time was 28 days, the median 25 days, and the modal time 23 days. The standard deviation was computed to be 4.2 days. What is Pearson's coefficient of skewness in this instance?

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