Prepare a one-page summary of the VA appointments data including the backlog and hospital characteristics. Include a combination of graphs and numerical statistics that you think effectively summarizes the data. Discuss the rationale for your choices.

Choose another region of the country and randomly select 12-16 VA medical centers from three or four VISNs. Build a file similar to VA_Appts_Processed.jmp. Repeat the analysis from this case. How do the results for this region compare to those of the southeast region?

Given the results of the analyses conducted in this case, what would you recommend as a next analysis using the given data? Is there other data that you think would be helpful to better understand the change in backlog?