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.
In statistics, population refers to the total set of observations that can be made. For example, if we are studying the weight of adult women, the population is the set of weights of all the women in the world. If we are studying the grade point average (GPA) of students at Harvard, the population is the set of GPA's of all the students at Harvard. AP Statistics.