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Here's an example. Suppose we wish to know how many days, on average, patients spend in hos- pice care in the U.S. Since we can't get data from every patient on hospice, we obtain a random sample of lengths of time on hospice (in days) from several care providers. 108 18 21 97 25 78 95 82 202 20 21 61 104 103 71 109 176 187 14 16 24 52 109 181 51 77 24 43 36 29 97 25 181 51 78 95 77 124 82 202 43 36 20 21 29 97 61 104 18 21 52 109 168 24 61 104 187 14 103 11 16 119 176 51 77 25 78 24 52 78 95 21 61 4 103 109 81 29 97 187 104 87 21 29 51 78 109 168 36 77 12 71 3 109 129 82 202 43 36 1504-1 INTRODUCTION TO HYPOTHESIS TESTING PRE-ACTIVITY Refer to the length of hospice care data in Section 3-4. A large hospice care provider has a budget model that assumes that, on average, patients require 60 days or less of hospice care, and wants to determine whether, on average, lengths of hospice stays are now longer than 60 days. If so, the company must take action to revise their budget. 1. a. The research question is b. The population of interest is c. The variable of interest is which is (circle one) categorical quantitative and has units d. Since the question is about the average length of hospice care, the appropriate popula- tion parameter is the e. The sample statistic we will use to estimate this parameter is the 2. Step 1 of a hypothesis test is to state hypotheses in terms of the population parameter of interest. State null and alternative hypotheses for the research question in symbols and in words. 3. Step 2 of a hypothesis test requires collecting and describing the data. From your work in the Section 3-4 Pre-Activity, the sample consists of and the sample standard deviation is the sample mean is . The sample distribution shape is and the boxplot shows that there (circle one) are are not outliers. Learning Through Practice: Statistical Reasoning 119