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Probability Concepts & Applications
(1) Describe the rationale for utilizing probability concepts. Is there more than one type of probability? If so, describe the different types of probability.
One uses probability mathematics in order to asse Continue Reading...
Probability
Probabilities according to Becker and Parker (2011) are used in both simulations and real life scenarios to help in the estimation of the occurrence of events. In the words of Gravetter and Wallnau (2008), "for a situation in which sever Continue Reading...
Probability -- Subjective, relative frequency, and probabilistic propensity
According to the academic definition of probability, the concept of probability involves a choice of some class of events (or statements) and an assignment of some meaning t Continue Reading...
Probability provides a measurable and quantifiable indication of how likely a particular outcome is for an event or experiment. It is expressed as a numeric value between zero and one (inclusive), where an impossible event has a probability of zero a Continue Reading...
All models are not perfect mirrors of reality, merely guides for the business professional. But the models of basic integral calculus allow a businessperson to at least apply a few indeterminate variables or scenarios to a model, to price a particul Continue Reading...
Probability is a basic mathematical concept that requires one to understand how odds work. Probability is a useful skill to have, whether for playing cards, or for implementing things like decision trees in business, where ideas like compound probabi Continue Reading...
6, and the chances of rain is 0.4. Historical data may be used for forecasting, but past patterns will not necessarily be reliable.
To gain a more reliable assessment there are alternatives; the weather service makes advanced forecasts based on a la Continue Reading...
An example of a business situation where the probability distribution may be utilized is a scenario where a manager attempts to predict employee retention. The statistical test would be a binary logistic regression analysis. The probability distrib Continue Reading...
Market Efficiency and Empirical Approaches to Test for it
A review and discussion of market efficiency
A financial market is efficient with respect to information item, if the new information has fully influenced the market prices. In an efficient Continue Reading...
leadership concepts related with the effective leadership development. It chooses and evaluates the transformational leadership style. It addresses the following questions. What are the qualities associated with transformational leadership style? Ho Continue Reading...
"Maslow's central theme revolves around the meaning and significance of human work..." (Motivation Theorists and Their Theories) This is a theme that in encountered repeatedly in many existential views of human motivation.
Maslow therefore develope Continue Reading...
Mathematics Concepts in Profession
Mathematics Concepts in the Teaching Profession
Mathematical concepts in professions
My Profession and Applicable Math Concepts
Mathematics is a branch of knowledge dealing with scientific notions of logical qua Continue Reading...
WOR and argue against this concept and its application within City Super in Hong Kong. The argument in this paper is that McNair propagates that retail institutions evolve over time implying cost leadership strategy is suitable for emerging retail i Continue Reading...
Statistical concepts have literally thousands of applications, but I will focus on those that apply to several major fields: political science, marketing, economics, social services, and insurance. Statistics are so key to the nature of these fields Continue Reading...
Hospital Management Concepts
Great Lake Memorial Hospital has just entered into a five-year contract with Springville General Hospital to deliver quality care without duplication of services. We now have a new CEO who will be meeting with a current 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...
To my observation, a math teacher now has the ability to put a personal stamp on his approach to curricular material, with evolving technologies such as a class website serving as a reflection of his own ideas regarding math instruction and his own Continue Reading...
In order to efficiently predict customer levels based on frequency, "data on customer arrivals must be collected and a statistical test conducted to see whether an assumption of a Poisson distribution for arrivals is reasonable," (Anderson 2008:472) Continue Reading...
Solving Problems
Recruiting Techniques: Realistic Job Previews
Realistic job previews (RJPs) are employed to hire individuals who will remain and perform the job due to personal fulfillment since these people have a practical perception of the work w Continue Reading...
Whatever time duration is arrived at, the researcher should at least determine (preferably from the respondent) the time duration that the respondent will use as a reference, so it is clearer whether the proportion or percentage given is more or les Continue Reading...
" (Bawer, 2005) Thus, culture and a higher cost of going out both come into play. Europeans have more health care and social services than Americans, but they still also pay more in taxes. True, they have better public transportation as well -- but g Continue Reading...
Public Health Concepts for the Uninsured
Pediatrics is an area of study for Doctors of Nursing Practice that provides wide-ranging and extensive healthcare from the time of birth through the period of adolescence by evaluation, diagnosis, managemen Continue Reading...
opportunity analysis, is one of the stages in the Kepner-Tregoe approach for the problem-solving process. This concept was introduced to help in analyzing the consequences of a decision in order to identify what could potentially go wrong and to cre Continue Reading...
Ethics of Group Therapy
Ethical Concepts Guiding Group Psychiatric Therapy Practice
Ethically inclined group psychotherapists use moral codes produced from their professions and from associations dedicated to the furtherance of group psychiatric th Continue Reading...
Gould's and Mayr's biological species concept, as presented by Stamos (2008). According to these scientists and to this species concept, two populations are termed as belonging to the same species if they are capable of interbreeding.
So, as Stamos Continue Reading...
The assessment becomes biased, especially when a PSC is compared to the PPP bid of a willing company. Moreover, if un-affordability and budgetary limits exclude traditional procurement, the project will not progress. This is the case when the submit Continue Reading...
Firm, Labor Markets, and Imperfect Information
Economics
Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition
A perfectly competitive market does not have barriers to entry or exit and is characterized by many producers and many consumers, all of who Continue Reading...
Finance -- Finance for Strategic Managers -- Stage
I am a longstanding manager in a family firm which is a small but growing organisation. My responsibility is finance. A new member of the family has just joined the firm fresh from completing a post Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting:
Manufacturing Overhead:
The costs allocated to a cost object can be considered as fixed or variable as well as direct or indirect costs. There are two types of costing systems that are used by management accountants i.e. job- Continue Reading...
402). Moreover, Daly and Ree (2006) suggest that the probability proportionate to size method is particularly useful for sampling educational institutions for ensuring that a representative sampling is achieved. Therefore, Ms. Smith would assign lar Continue Reading...
statistical data being the driver of what choice is chosen and why. The concepts that lead to the decision, the inclusion of proper probability concepts, the outcome of the decision with statistical data to back it up, the tradeoffs between accuracy Continue Reading...
love biking but have, unfortunately, gone through several different bikes in my life. Some of them have been stolen, others have been lost, others have just broken down and the cost of repairing them has been too great. Usually, I go for the cheapes Continue Reading...
For example, to assess arithmetic, number and operations concepts, the measurable objectives used include the pupil being able to demonstrate an understanding of the relative magnitude of numbers, being able to accurately solve problems involving pr Continue Reading...
Probability and Normal Distribution
In the study of statistics, probability is a key concept that illustrates and describes the randomness and likelihood of an event from happening given the number of ways it can happen and the number of outcomes th Continue Reading...
The hungry birds in the sky pecked away at the bread. The presence of the birds was an independent event unrelated to the travails of the children: it could not be foreseen and would have not made getting loss more or less probable if Hansel had use Continue Reading...
Treatment vs. Punishment
Treatment Concept
Juvenile crime is often serious because of the ability to represent a significant proportion in relation to the total criminal activity within the community. The normal assumption indicates that adolescent Continue Reading...
Risk analysis in disclosure cases also demonstrates that disclosure hazards are events that organizations repeat in cyclic patterns. Thus, to prevent violations and to accurately estimate the probability of an unauthorized disclosure, there are many Continue Reading...
The author's notion of rare events and his decision to focus on them and attempt to invest in them also serves to support his thesis, that what people commonly attribute to their own efforts is really just randomness. By choosing to invest in this 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...