On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Nursing data set which pertains to Nursing. The Nursing data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the Nursing data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Nursing"). This will load the data into a variable called Nursing. If R says the Nursing data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Nursing R data set. The size of this file is about 1,595 bytes.

Nursing

Description

Characteristics of nursing homes in New Mexico.

Format

A dataset with 52 observations on the following 7 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Beds	Number of beds in the nursing home
InPatientDays	Annual medical in-patient days (in hundreds)
AllPatientDays	Annual total patient days (in hundreds)
PatientRevenue	Annual patinet care revenue (in hundreds of dollars)
NurseSalaries	Annual nursing salaries (in hundreds of dollars)
FacilitiesExpend	Annual facilities expenditure (in hundreds of dollars)
Rural	1=rural or 0=non-rural

Details

The data were collected by the Department of Health and Social Services of the State of New Mexico and cover 52 of the 60 licensed nursing facilities in New Mexico in 1988.

Source

Downloaded from DASL at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Nursingdat.html

References

Howard L. Smith, Niell F. Piland, and Nancy Fisher, "A Comparison of Financial Performance, Organizational Characteristics, and Management Strategy Among Rural and Urban Nursing Facilities," Journal of Rural Health, Winter 1992, pp 27-40.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.