1. Having collected this data, how can the hospital present it in a useful format that is clear and easy to understand?

2. Which factors can it use to predict nurses’ grades? What other factors might be relevant?

3. What do you think the hospital should do next?

Each term, the Western General Hospital accepts a batch of 50 new student nurses. Their training lasts for several years before they become state registered or state enrolled. The hospital invests a lot of money in nurse training, and it wants to make sure that this is used efficiently. A continuing problem is the number of nurses who fail exams and do not complete their training. One suggestion for reducing this number is to improve recruitment and select only students who are more likely to complete the course.