Lobbying Congress. In the special report, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” (TIME, Vol. 181, No. 8, 2013), S. Brill presented an in-depth investigation of hospital billing practices that reveals why U.S. health care spending is out of control. One of the many statistics provided in the report is that, during the period from 1998 through 2012, the pharmaceutical and health-care-products industries and organizations representing doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, health services, and HMOs spent $5.36 billion lobbying Congress.
- a. Under what conditions would the $5.36 billion lobbying-expenditure figure be a
descriptive statistic ? Explain your answer. - b. Under what conditions would the $5.36 billion lobbying-expenditure figure be an
inferential statistic ? Explain your answer.
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solutionChapter 1 Solutions
Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
Additional Math Textbook Solutions
Elementary Statistics (Text Only)
STATISTICS F/BUSINESS+ECONOMICS-TEXT
Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (5th Edition)
Statistics Through Applications
- Urban Travel Times Population of cities and driving times are related, as shown in the accompanying table, which shows the 1960 population N, in thousands, for several cities, together with the average time T, in minutes, sent by residents driving to work. City Population N Driving time T Los Angeles 6489 16.8 Pittsburgh 1804 12.6 Washington 1808 14.3 Hutchinson 38 6.1 Nashville 347 10.8 Tallahassee 48 7.3 An analysis of these data, along with data from 17 other cities in the United States and Canada, led to a power model of average driving time as a function of population. a Construct a power model of driving time in minutes as a function of population measured in thousands b Is average driving time in Pittsburgh more or less than would be expected from its population? c If you wish to move to a smaller city to reduce your average driving time to work by 25, how much smaller should the city be?arrow_forwardStores, a division of National Clothing, is a chain of women’s apparel stores operating throughout the country. The chain recently ran a promotion in which discount coupons were sent to customers of other National Clothing stores. Data collected for a sample of 100 in-store credit card transactions at Pelican Stores during one day while the promotion was running are contained in the file PelicanStores. Table 3.13 shows a portion of the data set. The Proprietary Card method of payment refers to charges made using a National Clothing charge card. Customers who made a purchase using a discount coupon are referred to as promotional customers and customers who made a purchase but did not use a discount coupon are referred to as regular customers. Because the promotional coupons were not sent to regular Pelican Stores customers, management considers the sales made to people presenting the promotional coupons as sales it would not otherwise make. Of course, Pelican also hopes that the…arrow_forwardBiostatistics question: Introduction: The direct health consequences of mass shootings include death, injury, and psychological trauma among those affected. Less overt health implications may also occur within affected communities. The health consequences of mass shootings as well as violence, terrorism, and war disproportionately affect children because the periods of fetal development, infancy, and young childhood are especially sensitive to adverse shocks and stress. The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to assess changes in newborn birthweight in U.S. communities where a mass shooting took place. Methods: This study ascertains whether exposure to a mass shooting in the county of birth adversely affected subsequent birthweight through community bereavement and stress. All births records from 1982-2002 in counties where a mass shooting took place were used; newborns were compared within-counties. A total of 3.2 million births were included in the analysis as well as 61…arrow_forward
- Functions and Change: A Modeling Approach to Coll...AlgebraISBN:9781337111348Author:Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, Alan NoellPublisher:Cengage Learning