Question 1: Why should a manger know about research when the job entails managing people‚ products‚ events‚ environments‚ and the like? Answer: Research simply means a search for facts – answers to questions and solutions to problems. It is a purposive investigation. It is an organized inquiry. It seeks to find explanations to unexplained phenomenon to clarify the doubtful facts and to correct the misconceived facts. Research is the organized and systematic inquiry or investigation which provides
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the following: • The observations must be independent. • The observations should be drawn from normally distributed populations. • These populations should have equal variances. • The measurement scales should be at least interval so that arithmetic operations can be used with them. Parametric tests place different emphasis on the importance of assumptions. Some tests are quite robust and hold up well despite violations. For others‚ a departure from linearity or equality of variance may
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Please read Article 1 and then answer the questions 1 - 4 45‚000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance By Susan Heavey Susan Heavey – Fri Sep 18‚ 8:22 am ET. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45‚000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and cannot get good care‚ Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday. "We’re losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and
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1)Permutation----nPr = n! ---- (n-r)! 2)Combination----nCr = nPr = n! ----- ------- n r! r! (n-r)! 3)Summation-----∑ X i i =1 n 4)Product--------Л Xi i=1 5)Age specific fertility rate(Asfr)=No of
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STATISTICS WHAT IS STATISTICS? Statistics is a scientific body of knowledge that deals with the collection‚ organization or presentation‚ analysis‚ and interpretation of data. * Data are facts or a set of information or observation of the study. * Collection refers to the gathering of information or data. * Organization or presentation involves summarizing data or information in textual‚ graphical‚ or tabular forms. * Analysis involves describing the data by using statistical
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A STUDY ON THE PROSPECT AND PROBLEMS OF CARGO HANDLING IN CHENNAI PORT: Introduction: Chennai Port‚ the third oldest port among the 12 major ports‚ is an emerging hub port in the East Coast of India. This gateway port for all cargo has completed 128 years of glorious service to the nation’s maritime trade. Maritime trade started way back in 1639 on the sea shore Chennai. It was an open road -stead and exposed sandy coast till 1815. The initial
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Name: Navin Janmohammad 1. Using the MM207 Student Data Set: a) What is the correlation between student cumulative GPA and the number of hours spent on school work each week? Be sure to include the computations or StatCrunch output to support your answer. ANSWER: Correlation: 0.30790085 From StatCrunch: Correlation between Q10 What is your cumulative Grade Point Average at Kaplan University? And Q11 How many hours do you spend on school work each week? Is: Correlation:
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hped 3518 april 4 chapter 18 guidlines for assesment why do you want to assess your students what cariable do you plan to assess? which tests purport to assess the important variabls that you have do you have the statistical skills to interpret the assesment data? will you be conducting an informal or a formal assesment? how and with whom‚ will you share the assessment results why assess? screening -to identify needs -to determine if an individual requires further testing‚ additional programming
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Version 1 FINANCE 261 FINANCE 261 Test Answer Sheet Name: __________________________________________ Student ID Number:_______________________________ Please use CAPITAL LETTERS when writing your answers. Question Answer Question Answer Question Answer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Question Answer 16 17 18 19 20 1 Version 1 FINANCE 261 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND Department of Accounting and Finance FINANCE
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revealed the mean loss to be 9 pounds. At the .05 level of significance‚ can we conclude that those joining Weight Reducers on average will lose less than 10 pounds? Determine the p-value. Answer H0: Mean weight lose = 10 pound (µ = 10) H1: Mean weight lose < 10 pound (µ < 10) Test Statistic used is Z test . Given that = 9‚ n= 50‚ = 2.8 Decision rule: Reject the null hypothesis‚ if the p value is less than the significance level 0.05. Details Z Test of Hypothesis for the Mean Data
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