There is a severe shortage of critical care doctors and nurses to provide intensive-care services in hospitals. To offset this shortage, many hospitals are using electronic intensive-care units (eICUs) to help provide this care to patients. eICUs use electronic monitoring tools and two-way communication through video and audio so that a centralized staff of specially trained doctors and nurses—who can be located as far away as Australia—can provide critical care services to patients located in remote hospitals without fully staffed ICUs. One of the most important metrics tracked by these eICUs is the time that a patient must wait for the first video interaction between the patient and the eICU staff. Suppose the following is a sample of 8 patient waiting times in minutes until their first video interaction with the eICU staff:
9, 88, 19, 8, 18, 8, 15, 19
Find the standard deviation.
18.65
23.00
24.98
713.14
26.70