About 5% of home healthcare agencies show potential signs of fraud. More than 500 home healthcare agenciesâabout 5% of the totalâand 4,500 doctors across the country share characteristics that often point to home healthcare fraud, according to a report released by HHS' Office of Inspector General on Wednesday.
Statistics is a broad mathematical discipline which studies ways to collect, summarize, and draw conclusions from data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic fields from the physical and social sciences to the humanities, as well as to business, government and industry.
A sample, in statistics, is a representative selection drawn from a total population. Statistical analysis can be broken down into five discrete steps, as follows: 1  Describe the nature of the data to be analyzed.  Explore the relation of the data to the underlying population.