Table 4:

Analysis of the number of segments per HL7 message of the two models

	Original Data	Music Box Model	Markov Chain Model
No. of HL7 Messages	627,329	750,000	750,000
Mean	15.67	12.65	14.66
Median	10	10	10
Mode	9	9	9
Std. Deviation	28.24	17.91	34.92
Skewness	14.62	21.32	26.39
Std. Error of Skewness	.003	.003	.003
Minimum	6	6	6
Maximum	1,145	980	3,612