9.54 (a) At the .01 level of significance‚is the true mean greater than 10? Null Hypothesis: Ho: M = 10 :Mean is 10 or less pages Alternative Hypothesis: H1: M >10 :Mean is more than 10 pages Significance level=alpha (a) = 0.01 or 1% No of tails= 1 This is a 1-tailed test because we are testing that the mean is greater than 10 Since sample size= 35 >= 30 we will use normal distribution This is a one tailed test because we are testing the area in the right tail Since
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Chapter 1 1. Statistics is the science of collecting‚ organizing‚ analyzing‚ interpreting‚ and presenting data. TRUE 2. Inferential statistics refers to generalizing from a sample to a population‚ estimating unknown parameters‚ drawing conclusions‚ and making decisions. TRUE 3. Descriptive statistics refers to summarizing data rather than generalizing about the population. FALSE 4. Estimating parameters and testing hypotheses are important aspects of descriptive statistics
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ECMT1010 BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS A ASSIGNMENT Semester 1‚ 2011 This assignment is worth 10% of your total mark. It must be handed in by 4:30pm on Friday‚ 3 June in the marked drop-off boxes in the Merewether building (Level 2‚ reception area). Late assignments will not be accepted and will result in a zero mark. The assignment must be done individually and plagiarism will result in severe penalty and possibly a zero mark. The assignment will be marked out of 50. Marks
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CHAPTER 12: TESTS FOR TWO OR MORE SAMPLES WITH CATEGORICAL DATA 1. When testing for independence in a contingency table with 3 rows and 4 columns‚ there are ________ degrees of freedom. a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 12 ANSWER: b TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy KEYWORDS: chi-square test of independence‚ degrees of freedom 2. If we use the [pic] method of analysis to test for the differences among 4 proportions‚ the degrees of freedom are equal to:
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a) A company is interested in providing a new benefit to its employees to encourage them to utilize public transportation. To study the potential of providing this benefit‚ the company would like to do a survey of the workers at a company to gather information on why do or do not use public transportation for commuting to work. The company is about 25‚000 people in areas where public transportation is available. You also want to find out the reasons why their choice is what it is. In this case
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University of Phoenix OnlineCourse: RES / 341QUIZ # 1(Chapter 3 and 4 from Applied Statistics in Business and Economics )45 Questions [Each Question = 1 Point]SOLUTIONPlease mark one answer for all multiple choice questions with RED!Chapter 3Multiple Choice1. Which is not a tip for effective bar charts?A) Time usually goes on the horizontal axis. B) Bar height or length should be proportional to the quantity displayed. C) Label data values at the top of each bar unless graphing lots of data. D)
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Prepare answers to the following assignments from the e-text‚ _Applied Statistics in Business and Economics_‚ by Doane and Seward: Chapter 12 CHAPTER REVIEW #1 Chapter Exercises 12.48 and 12.50 Chapter 13 Chapter Exercises 13.30 and 13.32 Chapter 14 Chapter Exercise 14.16 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER REVIEW #1 LIST TWO LIMITATIONS OF BIVARIATE REGRESSION. Often simplistic (multiple relationships usually exist. Biased estimates‚ even if relevant predictors are omitted. WHY IS ESTIMATING A MULTIPLE
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45.16 + 2.3263 * 10 = 99% of households spent less than $68.42 NORMINV (.99‚ 45.16) References Levine‚ D.‚ Stephan‚ D.‚ Krehbiel‚ T.‚ & Berenson‚ M. (2008) Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel w/cd. (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River‚
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Applied Research and Statistics QNT561 Research and Sampling Designs Shindeera Robinson June 21‚ 2010 Chapter 8 21. What is sampling error? Could the value of the sampling error be zero? If it were zero‚ what would this mean? Sampling error is the difference between the statistic estimated from a sample and the true population statistic. While we would expect the sampling error to not be zero‚ it is not impossible. For example if you were evaluating the ethnicities of a population and everyone
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Chapter 1: What Is Economics? Overview As you read this chapter‚ look for answers to the following questions: • What is "scarcity" and why must all societies deal with it? • Why is economics sometimes called "the study of scarcity and choice"? • What are trade-offs and opportunity costs? • Why should everyone understand basic economics? • What are the factors of production? • How do different economic systems solve the problem of scarcity? Scarcity One discovery you have made
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