History and Development of Statistics Simple forms of statistics have been used since the beginning of civilization‚ when pictorial representations or other symbols were used to record numbers of people‚ animals‚ and inanimate objects on skins‚ slabs‚ or sticks of wood and the walls of caves. Before 3000 BC theBabylonians used small clay tablets to record tabulations of agricultural yields and of commodities bartered or sold. The Egyptians analyzed the population and material wealth of their country
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BIO 2003 SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT 2 Introduction: The report analyses the result of a study on workers from brick and tile industries conducted by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL). HSL put down few criteria’s to the workers which being that neither of the workers from the tiles and brick industries should have worked in both the industries and that they did not smoke. The criteria’s put across was an assurance to attain reliable results. The essence of the study lies in detecting any difference
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QMT2033 BUSINESS STATISTICS Assignment for mid -term break 1. Most of the information technology developers claim that wireless connection would give speed of at least 11 Mbps compared to wired connection. A sample of 105 computers using wireless connection shows it gives a mean of 11.7 Mbps and a standard deviation of 2.3 Mbps. a) Do you think that the wireless usage should be implemented? Test at 7% significance level). b) Repeat the test by using p-value approach. 2. A jack is usually used
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MBA 501A – [STATISTICS] ASSIGNMENT 4 INSTRUCTIONS: You are to work independently on this assignment. The total number of points possible is 50. Please note that point allocation varies per question. Use the Help feature in MINITAB 16 to read descriptions for the data sets so that you can make meaningful comments. [10 pts] 1. Use the data set OPENHOUSE.MTW in the Student14 folder. Perform the Chi Square test for independence to determine whether style of home and location are are related.
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Rape Statistics Working at a Historic Black College/University (HBCU) for the past three (3) years‚ I just recently came in contact with a rape victim. I’ve seen the shows but never thought‚ I would be a person to come in contact with one. Talking to the different individuals involved with the student case‚ I decided to do my research paper on rap victim. Specifically‚ I am looking at how the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime in the United States is related to gender and
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Lecture Notes: Statistics A note on basic statistics Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities. So there are two parts1. Collection of Data 2. Analysis of Data- understanding what the data says. Steps in Statistics To carry out any statistical operation‚ the following steps need to be followed‚ in the given order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sampling Estimation Hypothesis Generation Testing Regression Prediction Collection of Data: Sampling
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Functionalism is the perspective that social events are best explained as the contributions they make toward society. Functionalism interprets each part of society and determines its contribution to the society as a whole. Functionalism originated from the works of Emile Durkheim who was mainly interested in the idea of what held society together. Conflict theory is the idea that society tends to reinforce inequality and give power to the dominant groups; it emphasizes division of society. Conflict
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Inferential Statistics and Findings Erick Mart QNT/561 August 25th 2014 Mario LOPEZ Inferential Statistics and Findings Inferential Statistic is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation‚ for example‚ observational errors or sampling variation. Our team uses inferential statistic to compare two groups‚ which are Melks and DHL. This paper outlines the sampling and data collection procedure used to test the null hypothesis. The null and alternate hypotheses
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increase by 0.0953 billion dollars (c) Comment on the significance of model (α = 0.05) Hypotheses: H0: β1 =0 H1 : β1 ≠ 0 Decision rule: reject H0‚ if |tcalc|> |t(α/2‚ n-k-1)| Where tcrit = t (0.025‚ 98) =1.9845 Test statistic: t = = = 48.368 Decision: Reject H0 because t calc > t crit Conclusion: There is sufficient evidence to conclude that there is significant relationship between disposable personal income and PCE at 5% level of significance. (d) The
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considerably improve business operations performance and supply chain (SC) as a whole (Valadares de Oliveria‚ et al‚ 2012‚ p.5488). This shows that a venture in BA is likely to develop a competitive improvement for the corporation. The article explains that the investment in BA is likely to advance SC performance and bring a competitive edge. Even though an investment in BA is statistically proven to be favorable‚ it can be considerably undertaking for any corporation (Valadares de Oliveria‚ et
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