Vol. 41‚ No. 6‚ November–December 2011‚ pp. 534–547 issn 0092-2102 eissn 1526-551X 11 4106 0534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.1110.0544 © 2011 INFORMS Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton Burcin Bozkaya Sabanci School of Management‚ Sabanci University‚ Orhanlı-Tuzla‚ 34956 Istanbul‚ Turkey‚ bbozkaya@sabanciuniv.edu Erhan Erkut Ozyegin University‚ 34662 Istanbul‚ Turkey‚ erhan.erkut@ozyegin.edu.tr Dan Haight Centre for Excellence in Operations‚ University of
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You should write 1500–2000 words in total (excluding any bibliographic references)‚ which will primarily comprise the patterns and linguistic evidence you use in the analysis of the texts. You may find it effective to present some or all of your findings in tabular form. However you structure your analysis‚ it should be well-organised‚ well-explained‚ explicit and easy to understand without your marker having to check constantly where data examples are located in the texts. You are also required
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FCT 1 Given an actual demand of 103‚ a previous forecast value of 99‚ and an alpha of .4‚ the exponential smoothing forecast for the next period would be FCT 2 A forecasting method has produced the following over the past five months. What is the mean absolute deviation (MAD) ActualForecastErrorError1011-11810-22108 2266 0098 11 FCT 3 What is the forecast for May based on a weighted moving average applied to the following past demand data and using the weights .5‚ .3‚ .2 (largest weight is for
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Data Analysis In this study‚ the quantitative data which was obtained through questionnaire which is used analyzed using descriptive statistics of central tendency measurements and percentages. The data was first coded‚ organized and discussed using mean‚ mode‚ frequency and median. The median will be used to show the central tendency for the ordinal scales and skewness to show the distribution of the population. In addition‚ percentages will be used for the nominal scale especially in the demographic
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1. Matching For each term below‚ find the best definition from the list on the right. Enter the correct definition’s answer letter on the term’s blank line. Example: __L____ __F__ autotroph __J__lithotroph __H__heterotroph __C__obligate aerobe __M__obligate anaerobe __D__facultative A. an organism that consumes methane. B. B. an organism that creates methane. C. an organism that requires oxygen. D. an organism that can tolerate either
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Comment on the forecasting system being used by Yankee. What would be the smoothing forecast for Yankee for Month 1 of Year 5 using the four Month 1 data points in each of the last 4 years using an alpha of .3. (the demand for Month 1 of year 1 is the most historical data point.) Do this manually setting the very first forecast equal to the very first demand value)
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Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002‚ when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant‚ even if she didn’t want us to know‚ can you do that? ” Pole has a master’s degree in statistics and another in economics‚ and has been obsessed with the intersection of data and human behavior most of his life. His parents were teachers in North Dakota‚ and while other kids were
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Caroline Walsh BADM 3601 – Operations Management Assignment # 4 Due: Monday November 12th ‐ 5:00 PM (a) A study‐aid desk manned by a graduate student has been established to answer student’s questions and help in working problems in your OM course. The desk is staffed eight hours per day. The dean wants to know how the facility is working. Statistics show that students arrive at a rate of four per hour‚ and the distribution is approximately Poisson. Assistance time averages 10 minutes‚ distributed
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LGT3105 Operations Management - Tutorial 5: Service Processes 1. The wheat harvesting season is short. Most farmers deliver their truckloads of wheat to a central storage bin and return back to the fields. The central storage bin is owned cooperatively by the farmers and they have assigned a waiting cost of $18 per hour for each truck and driver. The storage bin operates 16 hours per day and 7 days a week. It is capable of unloading an average of 35 trucks per hour. Full truckloads arrive at
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Project Stat. Math 5389 Graph Analysis# 1Spring ‚ 2012Noemi Bores | Identifying Misleading Graphs Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore‚ at the least‚ we should expect that the representation of the numbers be proportional to the numbers themselves. Unfortunately‚ this is not always the case. In some cases this occurs because the graph designer wants to give the impression of better performance than is actually the case. In other cases‚ the designer might not have any
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