Do Admissions and/or Births vary by the seven different geographic regions. Control is a variable with four levels of classification denoting the type of control the hospital is under (such as federal government or for-profit). Use this variable as the independent variable and test to determine whether there is a significant difference in the Admissions of a hospital by Control. Perform the same test using Births as the dependent variable. Overall, you need to run these ANOVAs: Admissions/Region; Admissions/Control; Admissions/Region*Control Births/Region; Births/Control; Births/Region*Control
Hospital Database
This database contains observations for 11 variables on U. S. hospitals. These variables include Geographic Region, Control, Service, Number of Beds, Number of Admissions, Census, Number of Outpatients, Number of Births, Total Expenditures, Payroll Expenditures, and Personnel. Information for these databases is taken from the American Hospital Association Guide to the Health-Care Field, published in Chicago, Illinois.
The region variable is coded from 1 to 7, and the numbers represent the following regions. 1 = South
2 = Northeast
3 = Midwest
4 = Southwest
5 = Rocky Mountain
6 = California
7 = Northwest
Control is a type of ownership. Four categories of control are included in the database: 1 = government, nonfederal
2 = nongovernment, not-for-profit
3 = for-profit
4 = federal government
Service is the type of hospital. The two types of hospitals used in this database are: 1 = general medical
2 = psychiatric
The total expenditures and payroll variables are in units of $1,000.