|
Main speciality |
Finish consulting episode |
Mean length of stay (days) |
Median length of stay (days) |
|
General medicine |
2,215,975 |
7.8 |
4 |
|
General surgery |
1,439,702 |
5.7 |
3 |
|
Trauma and orthopaedics |
816,344 |
7.3 |
3 |
|
Urology |
597,968 |
4.3 |
2 |
|
Geriatric medicine |
537,462 |
23.4 |
11
|
a) Estimate the overall mean and median lengths of stay in hospital.
b) What do the relative sizes of the overall mean and median lenths of stay in hospital tell you about the shape of th distribution? explain
c) Estimate roughly the size of overall mode you would expect.