AJ DAVIS is a department store chain, which has many credit customers and wants to find out more information about these customers. A sample of 50 credit customers is selected with data collected on the following five variables:…
6) A logically conjectured statement that describes the relationship between two or more variables and is formulated for empirical testing is a…
What are parameters and statistics (or estimates)? List two of the parameters and their corresponding statistics that were covered in Topics 7 & 8, and give examples of each.…
1. What demographic variables were measured at least at the interval level of measurements? Age, income, length of labor, return to work, and number of hours working per week…
1) How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? In the article that I wrote about it discusses the issue of how Essex County Executive, Joe DiVincenzo, was using his campaign funds to pay for personal expenses. According to the article the laws concerning this matter requires disclosure of all expenses, including those incurred on a credit card. It also states that from 2002 to 2011 DiVincenzo had approximately $250,000 charged to his personal credit card, which was paid with the campaign account, but never gave any explanation as to what the charges were for. The strategy for applying creativity that would best be used for this issue would be to devise or modify a process or system. Apparently, the laws that are in place for this matter are not specific enough, and there is a lack of enforcement. These laws need to be modified to make their…
| You have all of the required information and the main business issues/concerns are related to turn over, high absenteeism, morale, and discontent of the workforce. In a 5-7 slides presentation added to the last week’s presentation as an introduction overview, what would the sequence of slides be and what page title to each slide would you give? This should be the…
The meaning of statistics to me means, to collect, organize, and analyze a set of information that has been gathered. Though the definition in statistics in our reading material stats that it is the science of data, that involves collecting, classifying, summarizing, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numerical information. There are a lot of different types of statistics that you can use like descriptive statistics that utilizes numerical and graphical methods to look for a set of data patterns. There is also the inferential statistics that utilizes sample data to make estimates, decisions, predictions, or any other type of larger set of data.…
The US Army is like any other business; they are in constant need of new and fresh employees or Soldiers. The US Army for almost ten years now has stretched, bent and broken some of their own recruiting rules in order to keep up with the demands of the wars. Now that the wars are coming to an end, they have started to realize that all the rules that have been stretched, bent and broken really need to be in place. First I will summarize the recruitment of the U.S. Army and then I will discuss what ethical research practices should be avoided in this project. Next I will cover what parties involved in the research could face injury and what injuries could occur. Then I will go over how unethical behavior in this research affects the organization, the individual and society. Lastly I will discuss whether the unethical behavior could be monitored or resolved if it is found to be occurring.…
If the question asks for a calculation and a presentation of data, use tables to display the statistics (see Table 1). Presented below is an acceptable formatted table. Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for Salary in the Problem 3.5 Salary count50 mean79,700.92 sample variance987,398,889.46 sample standard deviation31,422.90 minimum31,174 maximum139,771 range108597 Before and after each table, provide a narrative is to help the reader. Question 3 If the question asks for a graphical presentation of data, use figures to display the statistics. Presented below is an acceptable figure (see Figure 1). APA requires proper headings and connection to text (APA, 2010).…
In Chapter 1, you were introduced to the concept of statistics and in exercise *6 of that chapter you were given a frequency distribution of the ages of 180 students at a local college, but you were not told how this frequency distribution was formulated. In Chapter 2 of your text, you were informed how such frequency distributions could be formulated and were introduced to several tabular and graphical procedures for summarizing data. Furthermore, you were shown how crosstabulations and scatter diagrams can be used to summarize data for two variables simultaneously. The terms that you should have learned from this chapter include:…
Note: The descriptive statistics are based on the sample of 233 chˆteaux and give for each variable the percentage a of observations that is equal to one.…
Fifteen percent of the students in a school of Business Administration are majoring in Economics, 20% in Finance, 35% in Management, and 30% in Accounting. The graphical device(s) which can be used to present these data is (are…
Descriptive statistics provides simple summaries about the sample and about the observations that have been made. Such summaries may be either quantitative, i.e. summary statistics, or visual, i.e. simple-to-understand graphs. These summaries may either form the basis of the initial description of the data as part of a more extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of themselves for a particular investigation.…
Q1. Define “Statistics”. What are the functions of Statistics? Distinguish between Primary data and Secondary data.…