998 Search Results for Statistics
This distribution can be applied to multiple business situations even where data is distributed differently, because a normal distribution adopts the central limit theorem which suggests that no matter how a population is distributed, the distributi Continue Reading...
This means they set medium term goals may be up to five years. This requires that they make detailed and precise judgments, so that their medium term goals are met. This has made the methodology require sophisticated business statistical application Continue Reading...
Multivariate Techniques
There is a number of mathematical and statistical tools that businesses use to survive and thrive in their respective markets. Some of the math involved is quite simple and basic. Examples of such basic operations would inclu Continue Reading...
Online Statistics
Part 1
Probability theory is an aspect that is applicable on an everyday basis. A particular situation in which I may use probability theory to reach a decision in public management is to investigate equal employment prospects withi Continue Reading...
A good example of this can be seen with: murders down 29% and auto thefts down 54%. What this confirms, is the divergence that is occurring in the various crime statistics that are being reported. ("Annual Report," 2009)
What Crimes are Most Signif Continue Reading...
Using this data set we can calculate mean, median, mode, and standard deviation for this data set over last 20 years:
Mean can be found according to the following formula:
So mean February temperature equals to 33.825 F
Median of the data is the Continue Reading...
video, three different forms of bad statistics were mentioned. The first was bad sampling, the second was bad use of measures of central tendency and the third was leading questions. Leading questions are a form of sampling error, in which survey re Continue Reading...
Psychological Research
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Descriptive statistics is an style of analysis that is used when wanting to describe the entire population under study. But the population studied must be small enough to include every c Continue Reading...
In the future, the politicians could support an agenda promoting the national manufacturers in an attempt to reduce imports and increase exports. The direct impact for the mechanic could be that he might have more work in the future.
Another exampl Continue Reading...
Stock Stats
Statistics in the World of Stocks
Many students at various levels in mathematics at times find themselves asking the question, why do I need to learn this? It is admittedly true that many people will never really use algebra in their da Continue Reading...
Over 250 respondents reported working 40 hours, with the next highest frequency being under 100.
Number of Siblings
The histogram for the number of siblings shows a negatively skewed data set, with more participants reporting fewer siblings. Howev Continue Reading...
Working with Inferential Statistics
Discussion
In seeking to determine whether children exposed to movies created prior to the year 1980 caused more injuries than children who were exposed to movies after the year 1980, we formulate our null and alte Continue Reading...
Nursing Research
How Data Collection Influences Statistics
Data collection influences statistics in several ways. First, data is collected according to a "category scheme," which is the establishment of meaningful categories in which the data is co Continue Reading...
crime statistics goes far beyond mere tables, numbers, techniques and formulas. Through the effective use of this information it is possible to garner a greater understanding of the individuals who make up the criminal world, the types of crimes tha Continue Reading...
What is the null and alternate hypothesis?
3. What is the correlation between student anxiety scores and number of study hours? Select alpha and interpret your findings. Make sure to note whether it is significant or not and what the effect size is Continue Reading...
Crime Statistics
Using the FBI's crime database, Miami Beach had 9585 property crimes, 370 robberies, 473 aggravated assaults. These rates equate to 10,773 property crimes per 100,000 people; 416 robberies and 532 aggravated assaults (FBI, 2013). Th Continue Reading...
2%, female 5.1%
CRKEVER - male 13.9%, female 8.6%
HEREVER -- male .9%, female, .5%
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H1: Females are more likely than males to have ever smoked a cigarette.
This hypothesis is not supported by the data. In this sample, 34.7% of those who had eve Continue Reading...
Crosstabs would be used to test this association. There is a significant correlation between the education of a mother and a daughter (r = .474, p < .01).
e. Does Belief in Life After Death impact one's happiness in their marriage?
Belief in life Continue Reading...
Overall, it appears that the relationships between these variables are somewhat similar between men and women, although there are slight differences, most keenly pointed out in the ANOVA results.
Correlations
Respondent's Sex
Age of Respondent
H Continue Reading...
As the population grows older there becomes more of a need for educational attainment to stretch beyond the traditional years in which one would think of it being. Older adults are playing a bigger and bigger role within our society and educating t Continue Reading...
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Question 11D
1. What are the null and alternative hypotheses?
Null Hypothesis: Volume has no relation to defect rate (the slope is equal to 0).
Alternative Hypothesis: As volume increase, defect rate increases. (the slope is not equal to 0).
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Voting
According to recent statistics, America has among the lowest voter turnout of any democracy in the world based on participation in presidential and mid-term elections (Anderson, 2000). According to the Committee for the Study of the American Continue Reading...
Probability and StatisticsSears Bamboo fabric was used for advertising its products with the running tag 100% pure bamboo. This assertion was false since statistically, it is impossible to deliver finished clothing products made out of one material a Continue Reading...
Bio-Statistics
Research activities, whether clinical trial based, experimentally designed, or product oriented, must exhibit and command interest, enthusiasm, and passionate commitment. To this end the researcher must catch the essential quality of Continue Reading...
Vulnerable Populations in Union County, NJHealth Statistics and Demographic DataUnion County, New Jersey, presents a complex landscape of social determinants of health and demographic factors that significantly influence the vulnerability of its popu Continue Reading...
Part 1Question 1A scatterplot is, in essence, a graph that is used to denote how two quantitative variables relate. When the two variables being measured increase, i.e. an increase in workforce motivation as a consequence of an increase in benefits, Continue Reading...
Damned Lies & Statistics discusses a number of factors that impact the ways quantitative research is conducted, disseminated, and ultimately interpreted by researchers and consumers (e.g., readers of journal and newspaper articles). In what ways Continue Reading...
Inferential Statistics and Their Discontents
The notion of conducting statistical testing is increasingly important because of the significance testing is the basis of statistics. Inferential statistics is an important part of this process despite t Continue Reading...
Correlation and regression are two important test statistics that are utilized in a study that focuses on understanding the relationship between two variables and/or the effect of one variable on another. In correlation statistics, there are two vari Continue Reading...
NFL Team With Sports radar for Location-Based Statistics in 2015
This article discusses how the NFL will unveil a more expansive statistics package this season. This package will include location-based data such as speed, acceleration and distance t Continue Reading...
" U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services Website. 2006. Office of Homeland Security. 24 Jul. 2006 http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/yearbook/2005/table07.xls.
Office of Immigration Statistics. "Legal Permanent Resident Flow by Type and Continue Reading...
Introduction
The business taken into account for the analysis is Google, Inc. The primary data being collected is on Google and on different mobile applications to evaluate the validity of whether the latter are becoming more significant and popular Continue Reading...
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Part 1
In basic terms, descriptive statistics could be conceptualized in terms of “the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns migh Continue Reading...
US Healthcare System
Healthcare staffing needs are expected to change in the next 10 years. As 78 million Americans are expected to hit retirement age, there will be need for more healthcare staffs who cater for the needs of the elderly or aging popu Continue Reading...
Healthcare/Statistics/Human Resources Leadership
Human Resource Management in Healthcare
The article taken into consideration in this assignment is Home Care: The Fastest Growing Low-Wage Industry by Candace Howes. In accordance to Howes (2015), es Continue Reading...
Statistics Anxiety
My sources of statistics anxiety as I begin this course are mainly located in my general lack of precise knowledge about how statistics work and are generated. As the University of Kansas (2019) points out, many students put off ta Continue Reading...
Inferential Statistics: Decision Modeling
Decision Modeling: Inferential Statistics
Decision models are important components of inferential statistics. They are crucial in helping researchers choose the most appropriate statistical test to use for Continue Reading...
Misleading Use of Statistics
The use of statistics by the media can sometimes mislead the readers. Consider the media's reporting of crime rates. The statistics they issue are manipulated such that a bias emerges dependent on the event being highlig Continue Reading...