The histogram shows the lengths of hospital stays (in days) for all the female patients admitted to

Question:

The histogram shows the lengths of hospital stays (in days) for all the female patients admitted to hospitals in New York during one year with a primary diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

a) From the histogram, would you expect the mean or median to be larger? Explain.
b) Write a few sentences describing this distribution (shape, center, spread, unusual features).
c) Which summary statistics would you choose to summarize the center and spread in these data? Why?

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