Examine the reasons why some sociologists choose to use official statistics when conducting research. Firstly‚ official statistics are a source of secondary quantitative data which are gathered by the government or other official bodies. Many reasons for their use by sociologists when conducting research stems from the fact that they are a form of secondary data; meaning that they are not collected by the sociologist themselves. This makes them high in practicality‚ representativeness and reliability
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Introduction Statistics is a set of tools used to organize and analyze data. Data must either be numeric in origin or transformed by researchers into numbers. For instance‚ statistics could be used to analyze percentage scores English students receive on a grammar test: the percentage scores ranging from 0 to 100 are already in numeric form. Statistics could also be used to analyze grades on an essay by assigning numeric values to the letter grades‚ e.g.‚ A=4‚ B=3‚ C=2‚ D=1‚ and F=0. Employing
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Statistics Real Life Example #2Article: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/21/us-ebola-airports.htmlMy article is covering the recent “Ebola Outbreak”. In this‚ people are direly afraid of catching the Ebola virus. They are even going as far as screening people in airports who come from‚ and travel to‚ places where Ebola is much more spread amongst the population (mostly in Africa‚ for now). The article quotes: “Some members of Congress have urged President Barack Obama to ban all travel
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Due 10/09/2010 Question 2: using research into street violence to illustrate your argument‚ identify dilemmas associated with relying on police statistics as a measure of crime. When the annual crime statistics are reported‚ they can generate many emotions within society. These feelings can be conflicting depending on whether the crime statistics show an increase or decrease in crime fields. When crime rates are down the community feels relieved‚ protected and safe‚ restoring confidence in the
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User Rosangela M Rezende Course Winter 2015 Business Modeling Test Quiz REGRES Started 2/21/15 3:49 PM Submitted 2/21/15 4:40 PM Status Completed Attempt Score 1 out of 5 points Time Elapsed 51 minutes out of 1 hour Instructions Carefully read the following instructions BEFORE answering questions: Study the case “ The Western State Tourist Association” and download data file WesternStates.xlsx from BB9. Construct the correlation matrix for the variables Y (Number of calls)‚ X1 (Number
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Running head: Misuses Statistics 1 Misuses Statistics Regena Kelley MAT126: Survey of Mathematical Methods Instructor: Zhimin Huang January 21‚ 2013 Misuses Statistics 2 Misuses Statistics Statistics and survey are misused and not accurate because of many factors. The types of these statistics are found suspect samples‚ asking Biased questions and misleading graphs. There are businesses that use these statistics with questions to convice people to accept
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CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE NATIONAL STATISTICAL ORGANISATION MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION GOVERNMENT OF INDIA www.mospi.gov.in CSO‚ SARDAR PATEL BHAVAN‚ SANSAD MARG‚ NEW DELHI - 110 001 Energy Statistics 2013 ENERGY STATISTICS 2013 (Twentieth Issue) CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE Energy Statistics 2013 FOREWORD Energy
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B U R E A U O F C R I M E S T A T I S T I C S A N D R E S E A R C H CRIME AND JUSTICE Bulletin Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Number 54 February 2001 What Causes Crime? Don Weatherburn It is difficult to find a succinct‚ broad and non-technical discussion of the causes of crime. This bulletin provides a brief overview‚ in simple terms‚ of what we know about those causes. After presenting some basic facts about crime
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EXERCISE IN STATISTICS Below are hypothetical data. (1) Organize them in bivariate tables to answer the problems below. Determine the statistics to use for each. 1. Are sex and occupation associated? 2. Are age and income correlated? 3. Are educational attainment and sex associated? 4. Are civil status and occupation associated? 5. Are occupation and income related N>E> you may use data transformation (from interval data to nominal data) Respondent No. Age Sex Civil Status Educational attainment
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Lecture Notes: Statistics A note on basic statistics Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities. So there are two parts1. Collection of Data 2. Analysis of Data- understanding what the data says. Steps in Statistics To carry out any statistical operation‚ the following steps need to be followed‚ in the given order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sampling Estimation Hypothesis Generation Testing Regression Prediction Collection of Data: Sampling
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