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Hospital length of stay

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Description:
The data gives the length of stay in hospital for asthmatic children in the USA.

There are 789 observation on nine variables.

Variables:
LOS Length of stay in hospital (in days)
Hospital The hospital
Insurer The insurer, either 0 or 1
Age The age of the patient
Gender The gender of the patient: 1 means Female, 0 means male
Race The race of the patient: 1 means white, 2 means hispanic, 3 means black, 4 means Asian/Pacific Islander, 5 means Other
BedSize The number of beds in the hospital: 1 means 1 to 99, 2 means 100 to 249, 3 means 250 to 400, 4 means 401 to 650
Owner The hospital owner: 1 means public, 2 means private
Compl If there were any treatment complication: 0 means no complications, 1 means complications
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Houchens, RL and Schoeps, N. (1998). Comparison of hospital length of stay between two insurers for patients with pediatric asthma, in Statistical Case studies: A collaboration between academe and industry, (eds R. Peck, L.D. Haugh and A. Goodman), The American Statistical Society, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, pages 45–64.
Notes:
The full data set is available as Case05.txt
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