Suppose you work at a local state hospital. In 2015, theinfectious disease department of the hospital was operating at maxcapacity. Your supervisor has given you the job of presenting tothe hospital leadership board about the number of patients whocontracted infections while at 30 different hospitals in your statein 2015. The board will use your findings to make informeddecisions about possible expansion of the infectious diseasedepartment. You will review the data, create visuals for the data,and create a presentation for the hospital leadership board to helpwith the decision.

2015
Hospital   Infections *Secondary column are the# of infections*
1 89
2 58
3 96
4 206
5 31
6 16
7 249
8 79
9 29
10 6
11 222
12 108
13 58
14 54
15 81
16 64
17 9
18 130
19 37
20 121
21 27
22 6
23 95
24 7
25 18
26 37
27 140
28 74
29 134
30 184

   Infections
Min=
Q1=   
Median=   
Q3=   
Max=   

Check for Outliers  
IQR=   
Lower=   
Upper=   

Infection Class Frequency
6 - 81=   
82 - 156=
157-231=   
232-306=   

•   Use the following data to complete the values, ahistogram, box & whisker plot, bell curve with distribution,and answer the following questions below.
•   How did the outliers impact the mean and median? Howdid they impact the histogram?
•   How would you describe the shape of your histogram?Is it skewed?
•   Which do you think is a better measure of centraltendency, median or mean? Why?
•   How would you describe how spread out your data is?What did you calculate or which visual supports your conclusion onhow spread out the data is?
•   How does your data support your conclusion?