You are an intern for a physical rehabilitation facility and one of the physicians wants to use the patients for a research study she’s running on the benefits of exercise. At her request, you’ve gone through a random sample of patient records and assembled the pulse (in beats per minute, bpm) of each patient at the start of their program with your facility since she wants to determine the baseline statistics of her sample. She’s going to do a follow-up as each patient completes the exercise program and will compare the statistics then.
see attached table.
a. Explain why a histogram is the proper tool to use to evaluate this data
b. Properly construct the histogram for this data
c. What does the resulting histogram reveal?
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