Statistical Analysis BU 510 601 2 Credit Hours Fall 2013 Instructor: Shrikant Panwalkar Office phone: (410) 234 9456 Office Hours: By appointment panwalkar@jhu.edu Required Text and Learning Materials Business Statistics in Practice; 6th Edition‚ McGraw-Hill Higher Education‚ ISBN-13 978-0-07-340183-6 (There are other ISBN numbers) Authors: Bowerman‚ Bruce; O’Connell‚ Richard. (the cover shows a third author – Murphree) Please note: 7th edition is available‚ however
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Chapter 2 Charts and Graphs Statistics is the science of data. A first step in the study of statistics is the examination of data. Chapters 2 and 3 present several techniques for reducing data so that it is more manageable. In addition‚ graphic displays are essential to understand and interpret complex sets of data in order to be able to make business decisions easier. Chapter 2 discusses and displays several graphical tools including the histogram‚ frequency polygon‚ ogive‚ dot plot‚ bar
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Kamlesh‚ Mathur‚ Daniel Solow. Management Science - The Art of Decision Making. Prentice Hall‚ 1994. 4 Jon Curwin and Roger Slater. Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions. Thomson‚ fifth edition‚ 2002. 5 Steyn‚ Smit‚ Du Toit‚ Strasheim. Modern Statistics in Practice. Van Schaik Publishers‚ 1994. 295
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Uses of Statistics HCS/438 August 2‚ 2011 Mike Janson Uses of Statistics The use of statistics has been proven to assist the understanding of information‚ data‚ in many ways. Statistical information is not just collected‚ but it is also organized and quantified‚ providing a clearer picture for further study. This writer will explain how statistics are used in my personal workplace‚ and describe aspects of the statistics used. Statistics in Personal Workplace My personal workplace is what
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STATISTICS HIGHER SECONDARY – FIRST YEAR Untouchability is a sin Untouchability is a crime Untouchability is inhuman TAMILNADU TEXTBOOK CORPORATION College Road ‚ Chennai- 600 006 i ©Government of Tamilnadu First Edition – 2004 Reprinit - 2005 Chairperson Dr. J. Jothikumar Reader in Statistics Presidency College Chennai – 600 005. Thiru K.Nagabushanam S.G.Lecturer in Statistics Presidency College Chennai – 600 005. Reviewers Thiru R.Ravanan S.G.Lecturer in Statistics Presidency
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The comparison of Cyclops’ from historical contexts to new media In Greek mythology‚ the Cyclops was a member of the giant race‚ every one of them having one eye in the middle of their heads. The Cyclops’ were gigantic monsters who originated from Sicily which consumed human beings. Because of their horrific appearance there were banished to the underworld‚ but later set free from their prison by the Greek gods. In the X-Men series‚ the Cyclops is a character that is portrayed as a superhero
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Introduction Statistics is a set of tools used to organize and analyze data. Data must either be numeric in origin or transformed by researchers into numbers. For instance‚ statistics could be used to analyze percentage scores English students receive on a grammar test: the percentage scores ranging from 0 to 100 are already in numeric form. Statistics could also be used to analyze grades on an essay by assigning numeric values to the letter grades‚ e.g.‚ A=4‚ B=3‚ C=2‚ D=1‚ and F=0. Employing
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universally. The scale is chosen depending on the information that the data is intending to represent. The four scales of measurement of data are nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval‚ and ratio. Each plays a different‚ yet very important role in the world of statistic a) Nominal scale Is the lowest level in scales of measurement? Is a way of grouping behavior‚ where actual numbers are simply labels or identifiers. -they do not put subjects in any particular order: no logical basis for the answers in each
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Compare and Contrast 2 artworks ‘Music In the Tulieries’ And ‘Dance at le Moulin de la Galette’ Music in the Tuileries Garden depicts a fashionable Parisian crowd socialising in the the Tuileries garden as they enjoy the music played by a band‚ Manet has not included the musicians in the painting. The scene is crowded and the composition of people occupies more than half of the canvas. Manet has attempted to capture the hustle-bustle of the modern life of people living during the era. He has
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a plot of the empirical distribution function with a normal cumulative distribution function for 100 normal random numbers. The K-S test is based on the maximum distance between these two curves. Characteristics and Limitations of the K-S TestAn attractive feature of this test is that the distribution of the K-S test statistic itself does not depend on the underlying cumulative distribution function being tested. Another advantage is that it is an exact test (the chi-square goodness-of-fit test
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