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krzymel

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on: Jun 24, 2018
The Surgeon General wanted to study malpractice litigation in Chicago. A sample of 32,000 medical records was selected from all 3.5 million patients who were discharged during the year 2011 . Using the information from the sample to make conclusions about malpractice litigation in Chicago is an example of doing ___________________ _ statistics.
 Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Question 2

If a qualitative variable has k levels, the number of dummy variables required is _____.
 a. k  1
  b. k
  c. k + 1
  d. 2k


juicepod

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

inferential

Answer to Question 2

a


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