Associate Level Material Comparative Data Resource: Ch. 14 of Health Care Finance Complete the following table by writing responses to the questions. Cite the sources in the text and list them at the bottom of the table. What criterion must be met for true comparability? | True comparability needs to meet three criteria: consistency‚ verification and unit measurement. (Baker & Baker‚ 2012) | What elements of consistency should be considered? Provide an example. | The elements
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You Can Do With Data/The Information Architecture of an Organization What is the difference between data and information? Give examples. Data = discrete‚ unorganized‚ raw facts Quantity Sold‚ Course Enrollment‚ Customer Name‚ Discount‚ Star Rating. Information = transformation of those facts into meaning. Financial data (deposits)‚ daily loans. What is a transaction? Action performed in a database management system What are the characteristics of an operational data store? Stores
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Handling Consumer Data Introduction When I visit my local Caltex Woolworths petrol station on “cheap fuel Wednesday” to cash in the 8c per litre credit that my Wife earned the previous Friday buying the groceries with our “Everyday Rewards” card‚ I did not‚ until researching this report‚ have any clue as to the contribution I was making to a database of frightening proportions and possibilities… nor that‚ when I also “decide” to pick up the on-sale‚ strategically-placed 600mL choc-milk‚ I am
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into the Workers’ Compensation (WC) actuarial model workbook. Payroll data for the WC model should contain “only the actual hours worked” for specific Rate Schedule Codes (RSC) groups‚ including executives. The WC payroll data should exclude all paid leave types. A comparison of work hours from the NPHRS mainframe report to the summary in EDW reveals very small differences. We hope to align the NPHRS and EDW work hour data. Also‚ we (Technical Analysis‚ Accounting and Finance) need to understand
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Plagiarism: An Ounce of Prevention … by Miguel Roig‚ psychology professor‚ St. John’s University While student cheating‚ particularly plagiarism‚ should be old news to most academic observers‚ it continues to challenge the integrity of undergraduate and graduate education. The results of the latest large-scale study by researcher Donald McCabe of Rutgers University1 are unequivocal about the scope of the problem. Of more than 70‚000 undergraduates and 10‚000 graduate students surveyed across
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Be Data Literate – Know What to Know by Peter F. Drucker Executives have become computer literate. The younger ones‚ especially‚ know more about the way the computer works than they know about the mechanics of the automobile or the telephone. But not many executives are information-literate. They know how to get data. But most still have to learn how to use data. Few executives yet know how to ask: What information do I need to do my job? When do I need it? In what
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Data Collection QNT/351 July 10‚ 2014 There are many times when companies have to collect data to come to a conclusion about an issue. The data may be collected from their employers‚ their competition or their consumers. BIMS saw that there had been an average turnover that was larger then what the company had seen in the past. Human Resources decided that they would conduct a survey to see what had changed in the company from the employee’s point of view. They attached
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Turnage‚ Bonebright‚ Buhman‚ Flowers (1996) showed that untrained participants can listen to shapes. That is‚ they used data sonification – musical representation of two dimensional space‚ with pitch as the vertical dimension and time as the horizontal dimension – to present participants the visual and auditory representation of waveforms. In two conditions‚ they showed the participants could match one visual presentation to one of two auditory representations‚ or match one auditory presentation
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Table of Contents 1. VARIABLES- QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE......................3 1.1 Qualitative Data (Categorical Variables or Attributes) ........................... 3 1.2 Quantitative Data............................................................................................... 4 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.................................................6 2.1 Sample Data versus Population Data ................................................................... 6 2.2 Parameters and Statistics
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of variables Qualitative Quantitative • Reliability and Validity • Hypothesis Testing • Type I and Type II Errors • Significance Level • SPSS • Data Analysis Data Analysis Using SPSS Dr. Nelson Michael J. 2 Variable • A characteristic of an individual or object that can be measured • Types: Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS Dr. Nelson Michael J. 3 Types of Variables • Qualitative variables: Variables which differ in kind rather than degree • Measured
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