Statistics in Business Quantitative Analysis for Business Friday‚ November 30‚ 2012 What are statistics and why are they important to business? First‚ statistics provide businesses with quality control and insurance. The information provided by statistical data support business decisions. Statistics are a quantitative technique used in business. This information provides information derived from data in order to support decision making.
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Types of Variables We can distinguish between two types of variables according to the level of measurement: 1. Continuous or Quantitative Variables. 2. Discrete or Qualitative Variables. A quantitative variable is one in which the variates differ in magnitude‚ e.g. income‚ age‚ GNP‚ etc. A qualitative variable is one in which the variates differ in kind rather than in magnitude‚ e.g. marital status‚ gender‚ nationality‚ etc. Continuous or Quantitative Variables Continuous variables can be classified
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of Environmental Science‚ it is easy to recognize the different trophic levels. Each trophic level shows how energy and biomass flow through a food chain however it is eventually lost as heat. These levels consist of: biomass of producers‚ those consumed‚ and those not consumed. The first trophic level has the producers which graze the food chain‚ grazers consist of the second level‚ then carnivores feed on the second level and continues on. After reviewing figure 4-12 in the same course textbook
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there after indicate height above mean sea level. If the altimeter is set zero before takeoff it will read height above air field. Sensitive altimeter: The sensitivity of altimeter can be increased by adding two or more capsules. So that it’s linear displacement is increased and it can detect small changes of pressure. Such directly operated capsule altimeters will lack accuracy above 60‚000 ft. Normally‚ change of pressure of 1mb at sea level is indicates only 30 feet change ot height
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Using Research and Statistics in Health Care *14 this topic addresses the following learning objectives: * Explain the role of research in developing knowledge for use in health care evidence-based practice situations. * Identify several ways that research can influence healthcare policy. * Identify peer-reviewed healthcare research articles. * Differentiate between descriptive and inferential research questions in a peer-reviewed article on healthcare research. * Identify
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For the FIFO run‚ the estimate at x: 3m 57s for the e-mail download response time it was approximately 1. Read through the lab instructions before executing the lab steps and creating the report. 2. Follow all procedures in the lab instructions for the items you will need to include in your report. 3. After executing all steps contained in the lab instructions‚ submit a single Word document containing your report to the Dropbox. You may need to refer to the OPNET documentation to obtain additional
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pseudocode) C++ program code Solve the problem below: 1. Create an educational arithmetic guessing game that will allow the player to choose the difficulty level of the game: easy‚ intermediate or advance level. Easy level will involve numbers between 0 and 10‚ the intermediate level between 10 and 99 and the advance level between 100 and 999. The arithmetic operators provide by the game is addition‚ subtraction‚ multiplication and division. The division will involve quotient and remainder
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juvenile stages that feed at a low trophic level‚ while the adults feed at a tertiary or quaternary trophic level? By having them feed at different trophic levels they are not competing for the same foods. The foods the adults eat are not the foods the juvenile eats so they are not intruding and competing against each other. That separation in trophic levels assists in the survival of the juveniles to the adult stage. 4. Not all adults feed at a high trophic level. Whale sharks (50 ft) are the largest
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Example of a food chain 5.1.5 Describe what is meant by a food web. A food web is a diagram that shows all the feeding relationships in a community with arrows which show the direction of the energy flow. 5.1.6 Define trophic level. Trophic level: the trophic level of an organism is its position in the food chain.
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climate change. Rising sea levels will have a consequential and dampening effect on their economy and livelihood. Climate change can damage coral reefs‚ reduce land source for agriculture and alter the fishing industry. A study shows that the World Bank states that if the see continues to rise at this rate countries will be mostly affected at a global level by climate change in 2050. The rising of sea level will also wreak havoc. A few possible consequences of rising sea levels are ‚ firstly ‚ billons
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