1. A radio station that plays classical music has a “By Request” program each Saturday night. The percentage of requests for composers on a particular night are listed below: Composers Percentage of Requests Bach 5 Beethoven 26 Brahms 9 Dvorak 2 Mendelssohn 3 Mozart 21 Schubert 12 Schumann 7 Tchaikovsky 14 Wagner 1 a. Does the data listed above comprise a valid probability distribution? Explain.
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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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LESSON – 1 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT Session – 1 Duration: 1 hr Meaning of Statistics The term statistics mean that the numerical statement as well as statistical methodology. When it is used in the sense of statistical data it refers to quantitative aspects of things and is a numerical description. Example: Income of family‚ production of automobile industry‚ sales of cars etc. These quantities are numerical. But there are some quantities‚ which are not in themselves numerical
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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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Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing Name: Math 256‚ Nelson 1. A soft-drink machine is regulated so that the amount of drink dispensed is approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation equal to 1.5 deciliters. Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean of all drinks dispensed by this machine if a random sample of 36 drinks had an average content of 2.25 dl. 2. The heights of a random sample of 50 college students showed a mean of 174.5 centimeters. Assume the
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Critical Evaluation of the Benefits and Limitations of Using ICT in Knowledge Management Processes 1.0 Introduction Knowledge management can be considered to be an essential strategic function in any organisation today. As the world becomes more globalised‚ and traditional structures of intermediation are removed whilst new ones are created‚ it is clear that knowledge‚ and consequently a learning organisation is one that is more likely to find unique sources of competitive advantage‚ and be
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Lawrence 10/15/2012 What can crime statistics tell us about the extent of crime in America today? Explain? I think that crime statistics tells us the variation of crimes that are being committed. Each year the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Uniformed Crime Rate Program (UCR) collects information from law enforcement agencies throughout the United States‚ giving a total of how much crime is committed in each state. Crime statistics tells us that crime is up and on the rise‚ and
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at incredibly fast speeds and those speeds are only accelerating. These new technologies have allowed for people to complete tasks in new ways and from the comforts of their homes! With these improvements has come the argument about whether the limitation of human contact due to the use of technology has had positive or negative effects on people’s lives. While some negative effects are present‚ the vast majority of
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Statistical Description of Data The word ‘Statistics’ has been derived from the Latin word ‘Status’ which means a political state. It has also it’s either to the Italian word ‘Statista’ or the German word ‘Statistik’ each one of which means a political state. Statistics is defined as “the collection‚ presentation‚ analysis and interpretation of numerical data”. In olden days‚ the data that was collected and maintained for the welfare of the people belonging to the state. We are thankful
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kinds of legal actions‚ including rape.The Statute of Limitations on rape varies throughout the United States‚ and in most cases‚ it takes time to catch the perpetrators of such heinous acts. Often‚ the time limit set by a state’s statute runs out‚ and a person can never get justice for the crime committed upon them. The 28th amendment should abolish the Statute of Limitations on rape throughout the United States so that the victims of these crimes will never have to worry about justice having a time
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