A Hospital Administration Would Like to Know the Average Length

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Essay

A hospital administration would like to know the average length of a hospital stay. It would be almost impossible to look through all the past records and average the lengths of stay. Instead, a sample of 1000 patients over the past year was randomly chosen and their lengths of stay were averaged. Describe the population and the sample in this .

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