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    Accounting & Statistics

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    Assignment Cover Sheet RESULT STUDENT NAME PROGRAMME MODULE TITLE MODULE TUTOR MODULE CREDITS ASSIGNMENT TITLE HANDOUT DATE 15/11/2012 PENALTIES FOR LATE SUBMISSION Kostas Papanikos Master In Business Administration Managing accounting and Statistics Dr Kounis Leo 15 Assignment SUBMISSION DATE 15/12/2012 CONTRIBUTION TO OVERALL MODULE 50% Up to one week late: Pass maximum grade awarded. Over one week late: Fail grade awarded University of Wales 1 City Unity College YOU MUST TYPE

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    DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

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    ECO 72 ­ INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS Topic 2 Measures of Central Tendency These slides are copyright © 2003 by Tavis Barr.   This material may be distributed only subject  to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License‚ v1.0 or later (the latest  version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Measures of Central Tendency This chapter looks at three different concepts of how we  describe a “typical” element of a data set. Mean

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    Introduction The current state of the world economy is quite uncertain. Economic statistics that governments and other financial institutions use to project the economy imply that the world economy is shrinking. Since 2008‚ the state of the American economy has not been attractive. For instance‚ the United States economy has not registered any significant growth for the last three years. The 2011 second quarter results indicated that gross domestic product improved by 1%. At the same time‚ there

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    Chapters 1-3:In order to control costs‚ a company wishes to study the amount of money its sales force spends entertaining clients. The following is a random sample of six entertainment expenses (dinner costs for four people) from expense reports submitted by members of the sales force. $157‚ $132‚ $109‚ $145‚ $125‚ $139. Calculate the mean and sample variance(s^2) and standard deviation. Mean = 807/6 = 134.5. Sample Variance = (109925 – (807^2/6)/6-1 = (109925 – 108541)/5 = 1384/5 = 276.8.

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    1. The three components of leadership are: 1.) influencing others‚ 2.) providing direction‚ and: ***getting voluntary acceptance 2. Comparing an organization’s strengths and weaknesses with its competitors is part of: PG 435 Not Self Assessment ***Competitor Analysis 3. Staff scheduling using information technology is only applicable to large organizations. ***False 4. When compared to public relations‚ marketing is: PG 430 Not Broader in scope 5. Which of the following types of

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    Statistics Analysis

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    Hypothesis: Ho: P = .10 (Mr. Plex and consortium will seriously consider settlement) H1: P < .10 (Mr. Plex and consortium will rigorously defend any lawsuit by Tommy) Analysis: For this case‚ we use 0.01 as the significance level. In a hypothesis test‚ a Type I Error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected when it is in fact true. That means if the consortium decides to consider a settlement when greater than 10% of the patrons resented ads/commercials is true and we reject the null hypothesis

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    Question for Statistic

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    Practice Problems 1-KEY 1. The closing stock price of Ahmadi‚ Inc. for a sample of 10 trading days is shown below. Day Stock Price 1 84 2 87 3 84 4 88 5 85 6 90 7 91 8 83 9 82 10 86 For the above sample‚ compute the following measures. a. b. c. The mean = ∑X/n = 860/10 = 86 The median = (85+86)/2 = 85.5 The variance = ∑ X - X 2/ n-1 = {(84-86)2 + (87-86)2 + (84-86)2 + (88-86)2 + (85-86)2 + (90-86)2 + (91-86)2 + (83The standard deviation = √8.89 = 2.98 The coefficient of variation = 2.98/86 * 100%

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    Abigail Williams Lies

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    When reading “The Crucible” one may ask themselves‚ why are all of the highest authority characters so adamant to believe that Abigail Williams and the other girls are lying? The author Arthur Miller depicts what it was like to live in 1600 Salem during the witch trials. Abigail Williams is desperately in love with John Proctor; who committed the sin of lechery with her. Abigail then uses her uncle‚ Reverend Parris’ servant‚ Tituba to perform the crime of witchcraft so she can fulfil her lustful

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    Guidelines for Progress Reports Purpose Progress reports serve a variety of important functions. First‚ the practice of research often requires attention to detail‚ occasionally to the extent that details begin to obscure the broader goal of a research program. A progress report provides an opportunity to step back from the details of day-to-day research activity‚ and to describe the conceptual framework into which that research fits. This exercise often helps to clarify the motivation for

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    Santa Lies Essay

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    Kids around the world wake up every Christmas morning hoping to find a stack of presents under the tree‚ having no doubt that Santa is real. But‚ once their parents confess the truth about Santa Claus‚ they are devastated. It looks like parents want their children to be wounded for all the rest of their Christmas’. Instead of destroying one of the significances of Christmas‚ being truthful and kind to each one and all‚ parents should rethink before talking their children into believing the Santa

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