The code introduced in this section can be adjusted to conduct all different types of analyses on dialysis centers. For example, instead of measuring mean performance by State, perhaps you wish to measure mean performance by dialysis center owner. This can be done by changing the column by which you group in the most recent example. Or maybe you wish to look at an individual measure instead of Total Performance Score, which again can be accomplished by just changing a column in the code.

Now that we have analyzed provider performance using dialysis centers in our first example, we will take a look at a more complex dataset, the inpatient hospital performance dataset.