Academic year 2013/14 LM Economics and Market Policy Applied Microeconomics C Benassi corrado.benassi@unibo.it Office hrs: Mon 11-12 6 hrs per week - 10 weeks ————————————————————— Course outline: 1. General introduction 2. Consumption and Demand Theory: (a) Basic issues in the theory of consumer’s choice: preferences and budget constraints‚ demand functions and their properties; (b) Duality in consumption; Applications: (a) Applied analysis and expenditure systems; (b) Separability
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Applied Anthropology is the use of anthropological knowledge and skills to solve practical problems; the application of anthropological expertise to the needs of society. It is also referred to as the fifth subfiled of anthropology‚ which works within physical‚ cultural‚ archeological and linguistic anthropology‚ to faciliate positive outcomes in troubled araeas of human need. The work of Dr. Mikel Hogan interested me the most; I have never before given a thought as to how applied anthropology
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allowing drivers of motor vehicles to talk on a hand-held cell phone while driving. 11. a. Quantitative; ratio b. Categorical; nominal c. Categorical; ordinal d. Quantitative; ratio e. Categorical; ordinal. The response to this question was recorded as a numerical value from 1 to 10. While the data are numerical‚ they are not quantitative. The numerical values from 1 to 10 represent categories that order the overall rating somewhere between unacceptable and truly exceptional.
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Applied Game Theory Christophe Crombez Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 1 Applied Game Theory Introduction Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 2 What is Game Theory? • a way of analyzing strategic interactions • appropriate to study situations in which several people take decisions‚ and o their decisions affect each other’s payoffs • equivalent of decision theory o Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 3 Course Objectives • introduce you to game theory to understand papers that
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Research objectives are the goals of the research study. Research objectives specify the reason researchers are conducting research. For example‚ researchers may want to better understand the difference in pain scale results among subjects with a diagnosis of moderate traumatic brain injury. In this case the research objective would cause researchers to take steps to conduct scientific analysis to determine the variations in pain experienced between a group of individuals without a diagnosis of TBI
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yourself these questions: Are you undertaking a quantitative study? Does your study take an experimental approach to answer questions? Are you making a prediction about the phenomenon being studied? If your answer to these questions is ’yes’‚ then you will need a hypothesis‚ but if it is ’no’ then you will need a research question. This is because a hypothesis is a statement that is tested by experiment(s) to confirm or deny the phenomenon Turning now to a research question‚ if you are incorporating
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IB Extended Essay – Forming a Research Question Choice of topic The topic chosen must focus on the human past‚ be worthy of study‚ and lend itself to systematic investigation in line with the published assessment criteria. Essays that focus on events of the last 10 years are not acceptable‚ as these are regarded as current affairs‚ not history. It is not a requirement for the topic to be chosen from the Diploma Programme history course‚ but it must be acceptable to the supervisor. It should
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1). Explain the difference between a research question and a hypothesis. Using your current or previous place of employment as a starting point‚ provide one or more research question and then develop two appropriate hypotheses. A resarch question is is a complicated question that does not have a clear cut anser too. The question is most likely variable different answers.A hypothesis is an aswer that might explane the research with lots of evidence. 2). You are the supervisor of a call center
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the Research Process Janet Sullivan Wilson‚ PhD‚ RN What are the Steps in the Quantitative Research Process? Problem statement(s) + background Purpose of the research Aims/objectives of the research Research question(s) Research hypothesis or hypotheses Review of the literature (ROL) Conceptual‚ theoretical framework Steps in the Research Process (cont.) Design & Methodology‚ Sampling Collection of Data: Methods‚ measurements‚ assessment Analysis & Interpretation of Data Research dissemination
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questionnaire that focuses on open ended questions the main concern should be on determining the way the responses will be quantified. Open ended questions are often used in research to clarify closed questions or as a means of generating ideas. In both cases it is generally assumed that the longer and more detailed the response to an open ended question the better (Graziano et al‚ 2000). However‚ relatively little is known about the effect of factors such as question wording or questionnaire design on
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