**Statistics HW Help?

[gilleabart]

An insurance company conducted a study to determine the percent of cardiologists who had been sued for malpractice during the past five years.

The variable of interest is...
A) The doctors specialty, eg obstetrics
B)The number of doctors who are cardiologists
C)All cardiologists in the American Medical Association directory
D)A random sample of 100 Cardiologists.
E) none

[toryn34]

E) none

The variable refers to what is being measured, in this case the percent of cardiologists who had been sued for malpractice.

Good luck to you !

[nann]

Your answer is E.

[achban]

E) none
The variable of interest is the number of cardiologists who had been sued over the past 5 years out of B or C (if the study concerns only doctors in the U.S.)