O AutoSave O h A PV ~ C ... x= Summative Assignment Template.xIsx - Read-Only v Home Insert Draw Page Layout Formulas Data Review View Automate X Calibri v 11 AA ap General Paste B I UV v MVA = $ ~ % " Conditional Format Cell Formatting as Table Styles A1 X V fx A B C D E F G H CHECK-IN 1 - Examing the Dataset Variables Key Focus: 1) What are the variables in the dataset? 2) What kinds of variables are they? 3) How are they measured? Variable type Scale of measurement Hospital days per decident Number of deaths among chronically ill patients assigned to the hospital Percent of deaths occurring in the hospital Number of physician visits per decident in the last 6 months of life Home health agency visits per decedent in the last 2 years of life, Hospice days per decedent in the last 6 months of life, Number of different physicians seen per decedent in the last 6 months of life, City State What is the number of observations in the data set? 5 How are these observations distributed by state? 6 Does each variable have the same number of observations? Why or why not? Use histograms to view the distributions of the variables, and describe these distributions. You should consider variation in both the variable of interest (hospital days) and potential explanatory variables. 19