Question: Using MINITAB to solve the following problem: At an outpatient clinic the management decided to take random samples comprising 8 ambulatory patients on each weekday
Using MINITAB to solve the following problem:
At an outpatient clinic the management decided to take random samples comprising 8 ambulatory patients on each weekday for four weeks to study the patients waiting times and assess if the quality requirement for patient waiting times was met. The employees at the clinic were not aware of this investigation. The waiting time of each patient was recorded. A patient's waiting time is the period starting when the patient arrives at the clinic and ending when a technologist sees the patient. Thus 20 samples each comprising 8 randomly selected waiting times were recorded. Create Xbar-R chart and explain. Can you explain the special cause variation? The patient expectation is 20 minutes. Are there defects in the process?
| Day | Obs 1 | Obs 2 | Obs 3 | Obs 4 | Obs 5 | Obs 6 | Obs 7 | Obs 8 |
| Monday | 18.95 | 12.23 | 17.36 | 12.27 | 20.20 | 14.97 | 32.67 | 15.65 |
| Tuesday | 27.02 | 24.06 | 21.10 | 13.82 | 16.81 | 16.15 | 10.96 | 19.23 |
| Wednesday | 21.50 | 22.21 | 21.06 | 15.62 | 19.15 | 23.38 | 16.16 | 18.01 |
| Thursday | 21.56 | 18.89 | 14.89 | 18.17 | 18.23 | 17.09 | 13.68 | 19.26 |
| Friday | 21.77 | 13.68 | 28.24 | 19.90 | 11.39 | 28.21 | 14.53 | 17.74 |
| Monday | 14.31 | 8.49 | 13.23 | 13.84 | 19.86 | 13.52 | 14.16 | 10.55 |
| Tuesday | 13.84 | 8.15 | 13.43 | 21.31 | 10.29 | 14.31 | 7.22 | 9.58 |
| Wednesday | 7.34 | 9.79 | 10.68 | 15.54 | 18.83 | 15.91 | 18.87 | 11.64 |
| Thursday | 12.96 | 14.11 | 16.82 | 20.21 | 20.65 | 22.78 | 23.98 | 24.96 |
| Friday | 19.17 | 17.94 | 18.09 | 20.19 | 23.21 | 13.50 | 20.43 | 11.04 |
| Monday | 11.84 | 13.45 | 7.78 | 19.10 | 12.66 | 15.42 | 18.00 | 8.85 |
| Tuesday | 12.19 | 12.46 | 7.09 | 16.90 | 15.13 | 19.53 | 14.31 | 15.69 |
| Wednesday | 13.51 | 14.21 | 14.25 | 8.52 | 9.11 | 21.20 | 10.51 | 24.23 |
| Thursday | 9.99 | 12.52 | 13.39 | 14.78 | 13.78 | 16.86 | 16.92 | 14.75 |
| Friday | 18.97 | 19.52 | 21.23 | 21.08 | 13.78 | 20.36 | 25.87 | 23.63 |
| Monday | 12.97 | 14.28 | 11.31 | 15.77 | 25.88 | 13.30 | 15.88 | 20.23 |
| Tuesday | 10.20 | 14.01 | 6.73 | 10.75 | 14.42 | 7.37 | 12.26 | 18.59 |
| Wednesday | 10.16 | 14.83 | 11.60 | 11.96 | 13.80 | 15.50 | 16.06 | 13.49 |
| Thursday | 13.89 | 16.21 | 15.79 | 18.21 | 10.51 | 9.15 | 12.32 | 9.13 |
| Friday | 18.79 | 20.53 | 19.87 | 21.47 | 25.75 | 20.11 | 12.95 | 15.59 |
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