1 Today Summarizing categorical variables Exploring the relationship between categorical variables - contingency table‚ proportions‚ conditional proportions‚ marginal proportions Ch 2‚ Sec 1-2‚ pages 15-29 Summarizing Categorical Variables: Blood Pressure (Exercise 2.37*) 2 A company held a blood pressure screening clinic for its employees. Data below is partial dataset for company employees. Create an appropriate display for blood pressure data among the employees. Blood pressure
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Monopoly and Profit Maximization • The monopolist maximizes profit by equating marginal revenue with marginal cost • This is a two-stage process $/unit Stage 1: Choose output where MR = MC PM Profit ACM MR QM QC This gives output QM Output by the monopolist isStage 2: Identify the market clearing price less MC than the perfectly gives price PM This competitive output QC AC MR is less than price Price is greater than MC: loss of efficiency Price is greater than average cost Demand Positive
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Decision Analysis Example Consider the following problem with three decision alternatives and three states of nature with the following payoff table representing profits: States of Nature s1 s2 s3 d1 4 4 Decisions d2 0 3 d3 1 5 Which decision do you choose? -2 -1 -3 Problem Formulation • A decision problem is characterized by decision alternatives‚ states of nature‚ and resulting payoffs. • The decision alternatives are the different possible strategies the decision maker can employ. • The states
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Demand for Water CIVWARE Dr. Danilo C. Terante Head‚ Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Civil Engineering Department De La Salle University Chairman‚ Water Engineering Specialty Division Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers - National Development of Water Resources How much water is needed? How much water is available? How are the requirements satisfied by the supplies? How is the used-up water disposed? Demand for Water Supply Withdrawal uses Nonwithdrawal uses Consumptive uses
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October 7th‚ the lecture was on Civil Engineering. The Presentation lecture was by Ned J. Araujo. Mr. Araujo introduced himself as a ‘Civilized Engineer’ with a PE titled. The PE title is known as a Professional Engineer as a requirement to receive the title of PE‚ one has to complete a four year degree at an accredited university and also work under a PE for two years; with also taking the FE (fundamentals of Engineering) exam and the PE after thereafter. Mr. Araujo started off the lecture by giving us
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Strategic Management Need of Strategic Management:- 1. Due to change 2. To provide guide lines 3. Research and development 4. Probability for business performance 5. Systemized decision 6. Improves Communication 7. Allocation of resource 8. Improves Coordination 9. Helps the managers to have holistic approach Importance of Strategic Management:- 1. To the shape the Future of business 2. Effective strategic idea 3. Mangers
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Cognitive Learning Theory What is Cognitive learning? Cognitive Learning developed by theorist Edward C. Tolman‚ explains the way our brain processes and interprets information that we learn. The biological basis of cognitive learning style is grounded in brain theory. .("Different Cognitive Learning Styles‚" 2003-2013) It’s the relationship that occurs between two stimuli‚ but even though the stimulus is the same our brains react in different ways. However‚ each person process information at
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Power Power is an international relations concept. The effects of international power determine the extent that actors in the international arena can control their own fate and circumstances. In a report for the International Organization Foundation‚ Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall present four types of international power that include compulsory power‚ institutional power‚ structural power and productive power. Compulsory power occurs when one actor directly exerts control over another. Institutional
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Financial Management Corporations: Create money Shareholders * board of directors * 7-10 people * corporate governance * monitor the manager’s performance * Sub committees * auditor commitee * compensation committee * buffer between shareholders and the managers CFO * strategic financial decisions * Spending money: how the money is spent * financial investment projects * capital budgeting
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TIME SERIES AND FORECASTING McGrawHill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by The McGrawHill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Time Series and its Components TIME SERIES is a collection of data recorded over a period of time (weekly‚ monthly‚ quarterly)‚ an analysis of history‚ that can be used by management to make current decisions and plans based on long-term forecasting. It usually assumes past pattern to continue into the future Components of a Time Series 1. 2. 3. 4. Secular Trend – the smooth
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