Examine the reasons why some sociologists do not use official stats in their research. Official statistics are a source of secondary data. They are produced by the government. They are quantative data. There are two types of Official Statistics. Hard statistics which are objective and can’t be manipulated; statistics on births and marriages are hard statistics. Soft statistics which are more subjective are easy to manipulate; statistics on crime‚ poverty and unemployment are soft statistics. Positivists
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Data Mining Weekly Assignment 6: LIFT; CRM; AFFINITY POSITIONING; CROSS-SELLING AND ITS ETHICAL CONCERNS. What is meant by the term “lift”? The term “lift” describes the improved performance of an exact or specific amount of effort on a modeled sampling‚ as opposed to a random sampling (Spang‚ 2010). In other words‚ if you are able to market via a model to say‚ a given number of random customers (e.g. 1000)‚ and we expect that 50 of them would be successful‚ then a model that can generate 75
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW The application that is to be developed will enable user to get exact result for their query. The query is related to a particular location and a destination in the location. The application ensures that the user gets only what is being looking for and no any misleading link and unnecessary results are generated. The application allows the user to open a new account with a unique name and pass word. Once account is being created the
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Big data describes innovative methods and technologies to capture‚ distribute‚ manage and analyze larger-sized data sets with high rate and diverse structures that conventional data management methods are unable to handle. Digital data is now everywhere—in every sector public or private‚ economy‚ organization and customer of digital technology. There are many ways that big data can be used to create value across sectors of the global economy. It has demonstrated the capacity to improve predictions
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Identify the key software applications used by The Tea Collection. The Tea Collection being one of the fastest growing companies in the United States‚ using the information technology system has helped them grow by using this software to design their cloth and using the application for selling of their products. The demographic – data mapping software has help The Tea Collection company to geographic the area of most needs for the products. Software that was created for the company is a tool bag
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contribute the hotels‚ such as Choice Hotels International company‚ which own 11 hotel brands: Comfort Inn‚ Comfort Suites‚ Quality‚ Sleep Inn‚ Clarion‚ Cambria Suite‚ MainStay Suites‚ Suburban Extended Stay‚ Econo Lodge‚ Rodeway Inn‚ and Ascend Hotel Collection has 6‚600 hotels under franchising (Stephen P. Joyce‚ 2012). In economic theories‚ the advantages of outsourcing the hotel building is to provide a use of the building with a lower cost and reduce the barriers to entry and exits for firms in the
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classification frameworks are proposed in order to categorize the most widespread measures. In particular‚ the second classification framework regards entropic measures widely used to measure complexity in manufacturing systems. With reference to this second framework‚ two indexes were selected (static and dynamic complexity index) and a Business Dynamic model was developed. This model was used with empirical data collected in a job shop manufacturing system in order to test the usefulness and validity
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Assignment #2 EC1204 Economic Data Collection and Analysis Student No. 110393693 Part 1: Question 2 From analysing the Data on the Scatter Plot the relationship between the GDP and the Population of Great Britain from 1999-2009 appears to be a moderate positive correlation relationship. Both variables are increasing at a similar rate and following a similar pattern which would indicate this relationship. This relationship would tend to be a positive one as more people are available to the
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The Extended Role of the Nurse HEIDI BIRCH‚ M.SC.‚ R.G.N.‚ R.M. BACKGROUND Within the UK nursing practice is undergoing changes that are both exciting and controversial. The potential to develop the role of the nurse within the health care profession should not be allowed to slip from our grasp. Initiatives by the government are aimed at redefining the traditional structure of the NHS. Making a Difference (1) aims to look at ways of strengthening the nursing‚ midwifery and health visiting
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The communication method (or channel) that you select should depend on your message Interactive or static should your communication be one-way or two-way? Interactive means a back-and-forth conversation; static means delivery of a message. What does your message require? Brainstorming and questioning require interactivity. Updates can be static. Personal or impersonal Personal means face-to-face‚ or on the phone. Impersonal communication is in writing. Does your communication require
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