The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN; www.aspan.org) is a national organization serving nurses practicing in ambulatory surgery, preanesthesia, and postanesthesia care. The organization consists of the 40 components listed below.

Use statistical software to answer the following questions.

a. Find the mean, median, and standard deviation of the number of members per component.

b. Find the coefficient of skewness, using the software. What do you conclude about the shape of the distribution of component size?

c. Compute the first and third quartiles using formula (4–1).

d. Develop a box plot. Are there any outliers? Which components are outliers? What are the limits for outliers?

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State/Region Membership Alabama 95 Arizona 399 Maryland, Delaware, DC 531 Connecticut 239 Florida 631 Georgia 384 Hawaii 73 llinois 562 Indiana 270 lowa 117 Kentucky 197 Louisiana 258 Michigan 411 Massachusetts 480 Maine 97 Minnesota, Dakotas 289 Missouri, Kansas 282 Mississippi 90 Nebraska 115 North Carolina Nevada 542 106 New Jersey, Bermuda 517 Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington 708 New York 891 Ohio 708 Oklahoma 171 Arkansas 68 California 1,165 New Mexico 79 Pennsylvania 575 Rhode Island 53 Colorado 409 South Carolina 237 Техas 1,026 Tennessee 167 Utah 67 Virginia 414 Vermont, New Hampshire 144 Wisconsin 311 West Virginia 62