How to Write a Descriptive Essay More than many other types of essays‚ descriptive essays strive to create a deeply involved and vivid experience for the reader. Great descriptive essays achieve this affect not through facts and statistics but by using detailed observations and descriptions. What do you want to describe? As you get started on your descriptive essay‚ it’s important for you to identify exactly what you want to describe. Often‚ a descriptive essay will focus on portraying one of the
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Student Learning Outcomes At the completion of this unit of instruction students will be able to: 1. Identify examples of descriptive research (surveys‚ case studies‚ documentary analyses‚ developmental studies‚ correlational studies) 2. Identify the steps and key principles involved in constructing a questionnaire (determining objectives‚ delimiting the sample‚ constructing the questionnaire‚ conducting a pilot study‚ writing cover letters‚ sending the questionnaire‚ following up‚ analyzing
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In my thesis‚ I will analyze three websites on obesity statistics in the United States. The analysis of each website will contain how they function as sources‚ their strengths and weakness. The first source on obesity statistics is from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). This website is for policymakers to give them access to research‚ technical assistance and opportunities to exchange ideas on state issues. This information captures the basic overview where obesity occurred in
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How to Lie with Statistics Summary There are some people that rely heavily on the statistical information provided by the media‚ government‚ and other research groups in order to form opinions or come to a conclusion on a particular idea or product. However they fail to realize that a lot of the time the data is manipulated in such a way that leads them to believe something that is not actually the case. Statistics can lie in many ways the first way is by using a sample that has a bias. For instance
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Statistics Project | September 26 2011 | The project statistically studies and compares the daily closing price movement of two investment options – real estate and gold represented by DLF stock and SBI Gold ETF respectively – over the past 3 years. | Comparative study of DLF Stock and Gold ETF price movement | Contents Stage 1 3 Overview 3 Problem Statement 3 Inferences 5 Stage 2 6 Hypothesis Testing 6 Stage 3 7 Linear Regression Analysis 7 Manual Calculations 7 Regression
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’Gifts Rapped’ is a magazine article that was published and featured in the British magazine ’The Spectator’ on Saturday‚ January 24th‚ 2004. Written by the author of the ’Alex Rider’ series‚ Anthony Horowitz‚ the article exposes his criticism of modern day toys. He also argues that toys in the present are inferior to the toys in the past and that the industry has begun to escalate. The devices used within the article are used to increase the audience’s awareness for children who too easily discard
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WHAT IS STATISTICS? Statistics is the mathematical science involved in the application of quantitative principles to the collection‚ analysis‚ and presentation of numerical data. The practice of statistics utilizes data from some population in order to describe it meaningfully‚ to draw conclusions from it‚ and make informed decisions. The population may be a community‚ an organization‚ a production line‚ a service counter‚ or a phenomenon such as the weather. Statisticians determine which quantitative
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Rape Statistics Working at a Historic Black College/University (HBCU) for the past three (3) years‚ I just recently came in contact with a rape victim. I’ve seen the shows but never thought‚ I would be a person to come in contact with one. Talking to the different individuals involved with the student case‚ I decided to do my research paper on rap victim. Specifically‚ I am looking at how the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime in the United States is related to gender and
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Assigmnment 1 Question 1: Give a comprehensive account of the importance of Statistics to you (i) as a government agent‚ (ii) as a Public Administrator‚ (iii) as an individual Statistics‚ is study of the systematic collection‚ organization‚ and interpretation of data. This includes the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Is is therefore safe to say that Statistics‚ as a discipline‚ is the development and application of methods to collect‚ analyze and
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Official statistics are published by the Home Office regarding the number of different types of crimes committed and the backgrounds of those responsible. Official statistics are published annually and are used to compare the difference in crime year by year‚ from this government policies are revised and adjusted where they see fit. Some sociologists see the statistics as an invaluable source of information whereas others question their accuracy. Positivists and Functionalists have taken official
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