U.S. Hospitals. Refer to Exercise 13.50.

a. Determine the conditional distribution of number of beds within each facility type.

b. Does an association exist between facility type and number of beds for U.S. hospitals? Explain your answer.

c. Determine the marginal distribution of number of beds for U.S. hospitals.

d. Construct a segmented bar graph for the conditional distributions and marginal distribution of number of beds. Interpret the graph in light of your answer to part (b).

e. Without doing any further calculations, respond true or false to the following statement and explain your answer: “The conditional distributions of facility type within number-of-beds categories are identical.”

f. Determine the marginal distribution of facility type and the conditional distributions of facility type within number-of-beds categories.

g. What percentage of hospitals are general facilities?

h. What percentage of hospitals that have at least 75 beds are general facilities?

i. What percentage of general facilities have at least 75 beds?

Working with Large Data Sets In each of Exercises 13.57–13.59, use the technology of your choice to solve the specified problems.