R for Programmers Norman Matloff University of California‚ Davis c 2007-8‚ N. Matloff December 4‚ 2008 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This document is no longer being maintained. My book on R programming‚ The Art of R Programming‚ is due out in August 2011. You are welcome to use an early draft at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/˜matloff/132/NSPpart.pdf; it was about 50% complete and contains bugs‚ but should be useful. Licensing: This work‚ dated December 4‚ 2008‚ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
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Case #92 Macmillan and Grunski Consulting Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Summary of Case The case starts off with introducing Sandra Macmillan‚ a bachelor’s degree holder in Economics who worked for Peace Corps. She was offered a job in a regional brokerage firm in Seattle and became very familiar to the work environment and operations of the firm. She also decided to get her MBA from a prestigious university to help her take her job to the next level. After a few years‚ Sandra decided
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Introduction Specific heat is defined as the measure of the ability of a substance to change temperature. Specific heat of a substance is the heat needed to change the temperature of 1 gram of a substance once degree Celsius. The more Joules (unit of heat) needed‚ the higher the specific heat will be. The goal is to determine specific heat of a soil sample as compared to water. This difference has many ramifications regarding our climate‚ with local and global. Hypothesis I predict that after
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Dallas Consulting Group Profit Variance Analysis Strategic Issues and Observations: The Dallas Consulting Group provides business strategy and operations management consulting services for its clients. Three consultant partners of the company help their clients in cost reduction by using different techniques like time streamlining production and reengineering operations. Since the company is making $80‚000 more profit than expected in year 2009‚ one of the partners‚ Dave Lundberg pointed out
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FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES OF INDUSTRY Michael Porter has postulated that the intensity of competition in an industry is determined by its underlying economic structure1. And he further contends as we saw above‚ that the industry structure is shaped by five basic competitive forces: the threat of new entrances into the industry‚ the bargaining power of suppliers to the industry‚ the threat of substitute products or services‚ the bargaining power of customers or buyers‚ and the Rivalry among Existing
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You are the newly hired consultant for Big Foot Consulting and have been assigned to the New Balance account. New Balance wants some new thinking about where and how to profitably grow. Use the product/market expansion grid to give New Balance some new strategy ideas. Explain what each quadrant represents and give a suggested strategy to New Balance for each quadrant. As the new Big Foot Consulting firm’s consultant‚ I have some advice from the product & market expansion grid to profitably
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R&R Introduction of Case Study Bob Reiss in 1983 observed with interest the success in the Canadian market of new game board called “Trivial Pursuit”‚ The sale of the game in the US tended to be approximately ten times those of sales in Canada since “Trivial Pursuit” had sold 100‚000 copies .Now Reiss thought game make a boom in US market and this make a profitable opportunity for him. After Graduation from Harvard Business School in 1956 Bob Reiss started working for a company of stationary
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a strong customer base. However due to rising competition‚ company has to shift towards protecting its niche. Competition does not seem to have high stakes in staying in the segment (major leaders are large international company’s belonging to global ESOMAR community). While they could be called strategic group with many niche players within‚ none of the firms operating in Ukraine are solely dedicated to market research focusing on children. As a CMO I must “dig deeper” and consider competitive
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BUSINESS MEMO TO: Winnie Widget‚ the president of Acme Widget Company. FROM: Elisa Hakizamungu DATE: March 1‚ 2017. SUBJECT: Bringing food and drinks nearby employees. After considering and analyzing employees’ wish and the cost of installing vending machine basing on brochures of different vending companies‚ it was found that it is good to install the machine in the office though there can be other different options. Since the area around the company is more industrial‚ there are different effects
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Specific gravity What is specific gravity? Archimedes discovered that the weight of body in air minus its weight in water is equivalent to the weight of the water displaced by the body. Specific gravity is defined as "The weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal amount of pure water at 4°C (4°C is the temperature at which water is densest). When a body is placed in water‚ the volume of water displaced is equal to the volume of the body. When the body is placed in water that it
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