Investigators need to study the impact of the Coronavirusoutbreak. It is of interest to understand how the number ofhospitalizations in a particular state is associated with threepredictors including the number of tests available, whether thesocial distancing measures are taken, and the overall populationsize. Answer the questions below: 1. Identify the outcome variableand its type (continuous, or binary, or count). 2. What are thepredictor variables? 3. (Give the name of the model that you wouldlike to use for this problem, and explain the reason for using themodel. Do not need to write down the mathematical expression of themodel.