A healthcare provider monitors the number of CAT scans performed each month in each of its clinics.

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A healthcare provider monitors the number of CAT scans performed each month in each of its clinics. The most recent year of data for a particular clinic follows (the reported variable is the number of CAT scans each month expressed as the number of CAT scans per thousand members of the health plan): 2.31, 2.09, 2.36, 1.95, 1.98, 2.25, 2.16, 2.07, 1.88, 1.94, 1.97, 2.02.

(a) Find a 95% two-sided CI on the mean number of CAT scans performed each month at this clinic.

(b) Historically, the mean number of scans performed by all clinics in the system has been 1.95. If there any evidence that this particular clinic performs more CAT scans on average than the overall system average?

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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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