Information Systems Success: The Quest for Dependent Variable By William H. DeLone and Ephraim R. McLean Dependent variables are needed to be well defined in the IS success examination. Prior research more concerns on independent variables than the dependent variable. Instead‚ this article focuses on the measurement of the dependent variable. Shannon and Weaver (1949) and Mason (1978) yield six distinct categories or aspects of information systems success‚ which are system quality‚ information
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Tutorial Week 7 - Class and Entity-Relationship Diagrams 1 Class Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) Class diagrams and ERDs both model the structure of a system. Class diagrams represent the dynamic aspects of a system: both the structural and behavioural features. ERDs‚ depicting only structural features provide a static view of the system. 2 Class Diagrams 2.1 Elements of a class diagram: 2.1.1 class A class is a general concept (represented as a square box). A class defines
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Introducing the Database Data versus Information constitute building blocks of information produced by processing data reveals meaning of data Data Information Information Good‚ Good timely‚ relevant information key to decision making decision making key to organizational survival Database Management Database End is shared‚ integrated computer structure housing: user data Metadata Database Manages Controls Contains Management System (DBMS)
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more or less linear way. To say it differently‚ price differences between hotels underscore the presence or not of some variables expected to influence the latter. It is essential for hotels to understand how they can price their rooms and maximize yield while remaining competitive. Therefore‚ we conducted an extensive analysis to help hotel revenue managers find out what key variables influence price on Orbitz. The data were gathered from Orbitz.com directly. The data is about 1623 hotels that are located
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variable The variable is the important aspects of the research. In research the concept are measure from variable. Variable are anythings that can take on differing or varing values. it mean that the value of variable vary from person to person‚ time to time or place to place but the meaning of variable are same to all. Thus variable are the charactestics of person‚ groups‚ objects‚ ideas‚ feeling or other thing that researcher want to measure. Variables are thus anything that can take on differing
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Review Entity-Relationship Diagrams and the Relational Model CS 186‚ Fall 2007‚ Lecture 2 R & G‚ Chaps. 2&3 A relationship‚ I think‚ is like a shark‚ you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. Woody Allen (from Annie Hall‚ 1979) • Why use a DBMS? OS provides RAM and disk Review • Why use a DBMS? OS provides RAM and disk – Concurrency – Recovery – Abstraction‚ Data Independence – Query Languages – Efficiency (for most tasks)
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* CORRELATIONAL RESEARCH: measuring statistical relationships between 2+ variables * correlation studies measure variables; NOT manipulate: 1. Measure one variable (X) 2. Measure second variably (Y) 3. Statistically determine if X & Y are related (X Y) * BIDIRECTIONALITY PROBLEM: X Y‚ X Y‚ or X Y * THIRD VARIABLE PROBLEM: X Z Y * determines if association between variables exists * cannot draw causal conclusions
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Draw ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM (ERD) for the following requirement: 1. Students take courses in a college 2. Customers have accounts in a bank 3. People own vehicles 4. Employees manage projects 5. Machines are made up of parts 6. A college offers several courses. Attributes of the course include course code‚ name and credits. Each course may have zero or more subjects 7. Hotel (HotelNo‚ Name‚ Add‚ TelNo) Room (RoomNo‚ HotelNo‚ Type‚ Price) Booking (HotelNo
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Exercises 9 address driver-id person name owns license model year car report-number location date driver participated accident damage-amount Figure 2.1 E-R diagram for a Car-insurance company. Exercises 2.1 Explain the distinctions among the terms primary key‚ candidate key‚ and superkey. Answer: A superkey is a set of one or more attributes that‚ taken collectively‚ allows us to identify uniquely an entity in the entity set. A superkey may contain extraneous attributes
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(Nominal) Did you participate in the last senatorial election? (Nominal) Did you participate in the last state governor election? (Nominal) Did you participate in the last local election? (Nominal) Causal Diagram (Independent Variable) Education positively correlates with (Dependent Variable) participation in elections. Research Question My research question proposed is: Does the amount of education one receives impact the individual’s participation in elections? Theory The Political
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