Uncertainty in number of daily emergency department cases

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Large hospital faces uncertainty in the number of daily emergency department (ED) cases. Each ED case that occurs requires a single nurse. Ideally, the hospital would be able to handle such an ED case with a "regular" nurse, who is compensated at $2160 per day. However, if the number of ED cases exceeds the number of regular nurses scheduled, the hospital can call in agency nurses, who are employed outside of the hospital, who are each compensated at $5400 per day. The hospital needs to decide how many regular nurses to staff for each day, so as to minimize its daily expected cost. In order to do so, a data set (nurse.csv) is available spanning 300 days and with the following variables.

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